1 ARTICLE 505.

FORGERY OF OTHER JUDICIAL DOCUMENTS AND INSTRUMENTS ADMISSIBLE IN EVIDENCE IN COURTS

OF JUSTICE.

Every one is guilty of felony and liable to seven years' imprisonment who

(a.) 2 forges the seal of any court of record; or

(b.) forges or fraudulently alters or offers, utters, disposes of or puts off, knowing the same to be forged or fraudulently altered,

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(i.) 3 any record, writ, return, panel, process, rule, order, warrant, interrogatory, deposition, affidavit, affirmation, recognizance, cognovit actionem, warrant of attorney, bill, petition, process, notice, rule, answer, pleading, interrogatory, report, order or decree, or any original document whatsoever of or belonging to any court of justice, or any document or writing, or any copy of any document or writing, used or intended to be used as evidence in any such court; or

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(ii.) any copy or certificate of any such record; or

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(iii.) any instrument, whether written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, which is made evidence by any Act of the Parliament of Canada or of the Legislature of any Province of Canada, and not otherwise specially mentioned in this chapter; or

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(c.) offers, utters, disposes of or puts off any copy or certificate of any record having thereon any false or

1 S. D. Art. 361.

2 R. S. C. c. 165, s. 35; 24 & 25 Vict. c. 98 s. 28. The statute is silent as to forging the impression of such seals.

3 R. S. C. c. 165, s. 34; 24 & 25 Vict. c. 98, s. 27.

[These sections are singularly cumbrous and ill-arranged, besides being intolerably wordy. A somewhat similar provision as to County Courts occurs in 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95, s. 57; see R. v. Richmond, Bell, 142, and R. v. Evans, D. & B. 236.]

+ R. S. C. c. 165, s. 35; 24 & 25 Vict. c. 98, s. 28.

5 R. S. C. c. 165, s. 36; 24 & 25 Vict. c. 98, s. 29.

R. S. C. c. 165, s. 35; 21 & 25 Vict. c. 98, s. 28.

forged name, handwriting or signature, knowing the same to be false or forged; or

(d) forges or fraudulently alters any process of any court whatsoever; or

serves or enforces any forged process of any court whatsoever, knowing the same to be forged; or

delivers or causes to be delivered to any person any paper, falsely purporting to be any such process or a copy thereof, or to be any judgment, decree or order of any court whatsoever, or a copy thereof, knowing the same to be false; or

acts or professes to act under any such false process, knowing the same to be false; or

(e.) being the clerk of any court or other officer having the custody of the records of any court, or being the deputy of any such clerk or officer, utters any false copy or certificate of any record, knowing the same to be false; or

(f) not being such clerk, officer or deputy, signs or certifies any copy or certificate of any record as such clerk, officer or deputy; or

(g.) prints any proclamation, order, regulation or appointment, or notice thereof, and causes the same falsely to purport to have been printed by the Queen's Printer for Canada, or the Government Printer for any Province. of Canada, as the case may be, or tenders in evidence any copy of any proclamation, order, regulation or appointment, which falsely purports to have been printed as aforesaid, knowing that the same was not so printed; or

(h.) forges, or tenders in evidence, knowing the same to be forged, any certificate authorized to be made or given by any Act of the Parliament of Canada, or of the Legislature of any Province of Canada, for the purpose of certifying or verifying any copy or extract of any proclamation, order, regulation, appointment, paper, document or

1 R. S. C. c. 165, s. 37; 31 & 32 Vict. c. 37, s. 4.

writing, of which a certified copy may lawfully be offered as prima facie evidence.

ARTICLE 506.

ACKNOWLEDGING RECOGNIZANCES WITHOUT AUTHORITY.

2 Every one is guilty of felony, and liable to seven years' imprisonment, who, without lawful authority or excuse, the proof whereof shall lie on him, in the name of any other person, acknowledges any recognizance of bail, or any cognovit actionem, or judgment, or any deed or other instrument, before any court, judge, notary or other person lawfully authorized in that behalf.

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ARTICLE 507:

FORGERY OF LETTERS PATENT.

Every one is guilty of felony, and liable to seven years' imprisonment, who forges or alters, or in any way publishes, puts off, or utters as true, knowing the same to be forged or altered, any copy of letters patent, or of the enrolment or enregistration of letters patent, or of any certificate thereof, made or given or purporting to be made or given by virtue of any Act of Canada, or of any Province of Canada.

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4 ARTICLE 508.

FORGERY OF MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Every one is guilty of felony, and liable to seven years' imprisonment, who forges or fraudulently alters any license or certificate for marriage, or offers, utters,

1 S. D. Art. 368.

2 R. S. C. c. 165, s. 41; 24 & 25 Vict. c. 98, s. 34.

3 R. S. C. c. 165, s. 6.

4 S. D. Art. 361 (g.)

5 R. S. C. c. 165, s. 42; 24 & 25 Vict. c. 98, s. 35.

disposes of or puts off any such a license or certificate, knowing the same to be forged or fraudulently altered.

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ARTICLE 509.

FORGERY OF PASSENGER TICKETS.

Every one is guilty of felony, and liable to three years' imprisonment, who, with intent to defraud, forges, offers or utters, disposes of or puts off, knowing the same to be forged, any ticket or order for a free or paid passage on any railway or any steam or other vessel.

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2 ARTICLE 510.

OFFENCES RESPECTING CROSSED CHEQUES.

Every one is guilty of felony, and liable to imprisonment for life, who

(a.) obliterates, adds to, or alters the crossing on any cheque or draft crossed with the name of a banker, or with two tranverse lines with the words " and company,' or any abbreviation thereof; or

(b.) offers, utters, disposes of or puts off any cheque or draft whereon any such obliteration, addition or alteration has been made, knowing the same to have been made.

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ARTICLE 511.

DRAWING BILLS, ETC., WITHOUT AUTHORITY.

Every is guilty of felony, and liable to fourteen years' imprisonment, who, with intent to defraud,

(a.) without lawful authority or excuse, draws, makes, signs, accepts or endorses any bill of exchange or promis

1 R. S. C. c. 165, s. 83.

2 S. D. Art. 359 (c.)

3 R. S. C. c. 165, s. 31; 24 & 25 Vict. c. 98, s. 25.

4 S. D. Art. 360 (d.)

5 R. S. C. c. 165, s. 30; 24 & 25 Vict. c. 98, s. 24.

sory note, or any undertaking, warrant, order, authority or request for the payment of money, or for the delivery or transfer of goods or chattels, or of any bill, note or other security for money, by procuration or otherwise, for, in the name, or on the account of any other person;

or

(b.) offers, utters, disposes of or puts off any such bill, note, undertaking, warrant, order, authority or request, so drawn, made, signed, accepted or endorsed, by procuration or otherwise, without lawful authority or excuse, knowing the same to have been so drawn, made, signed, accepted or endorsed.

ARTICLE 512.

DEMANDING PROPERTY UPON FORGED INSTRUMENTS.

Every one is guilty of felony, and liable to fourteen years' imprisonment, who, with intent to defraud, demands, receives or obtains, or causes or procures to be delivered or paid to any person, or endeavors to receive or obtain, or to cause or procure to be delivered or paid to any person, any chattel, money, security for money, or other property whatsoever, under, upon or by virtue of any forged or altered instrument whatsoever, knowing the same to be forged or altered, or under, upon or by virtue of any probate or letters of administration, knowing the will, testament, codicil, or testamentary writing on which such probate or letters of administration were obtained to have been forged or altered, or knowing such probate or letters of administration to have been obtained by any false oath, affirmation or affidavit.

1 S. D. Art. 360 (e.)

2 R. S. C. c. 165, s. 45; 24 & 25 Viet. c. 98, s. 38. As to demanding transfer of shares in public funds on forged power of attorney, see Art. 493 (b.)