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(iii) i n the name represented as being the name of a
different person signing it and intended to be mistaken
for the name of that person ;
(iv) i n the name of the person personated by the person
signing the document, provided that the effect of the
instrument depends upon the identity between the
person signing the document and the person whom he
professes to be.
335.—(1) A person makes a false document w i t h intent to
defraud thereby if he intends to induce another person to act
thereon to such other person's injury.
Intent to defraud,
(2) A n intent to defraud is presumed to exist if it appears that
at the time when the false document was made there was i n
existence a specific person ascertained or unascertained capable
of being defrauded thereby, and this presumption is not rebutted
by proof that the offender took or intended to take measures to
prevent such person from being defrauded i n fact; nor by the
fact that he had or thought he had a right to the thing to be
obtained by the false document.
CHAPTER
XXXIX.
PUNISHMENT FOR FORGERY.
336. A n y person who forges any document is guilty of an
off ence w h i c h , unless otherwise stated, is a misdemeanour.
General punishment for forgery.
337. A n y person who forges any w i l l , document of title to land,
judicial record, power of attorney, bill of exchange, promissory
note or other negotiable instrument, policy of insurance, cheque
or other authority for the payment of money by a person carrying
on business as a banker, is guilty of a felony and is liable to i m
prisonment for life.
Forgery punish
able with impri
sonment for life.
338. A n y person who forges any judicial or official document
is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for ten years.
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339.
A n y person who :—
(a) forges any stamp, whether impressed or adhesive, used
for the purposes of revenue by any Government; or
(b) without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall lie upon
him) makes or has knowingly i n his possession any die or
instrument capable of making the impression of any such
stamp ; o r
( c ) fraudulently cuts, tears i n any w a y , or removes from any
material any stamp used for purposes of revenue by the
Government of Palestine with intent that another use shall
be made of such stamp or any part thereof; or
(d) fraudulently mutilates any such stamp as last aforesaid
w i t h intent that another use shall be made of such stamp;
or
( e ) fraudulently fixes or places upon any material or upon
any such stamp as last aforesaid any stamp or part of a
stamp w h i c h , whether fraudulently or not, has been cut,
torn, or i n any way removed from any other material or
out of or from any other stamp; or
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Imprisonment
for seven years.
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