Every person who, with the intent to injure or defraud, shall falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit any instrument or writing being or purporting to be any process issued by any competent court, magistrate, or officer, or being or purporting to be any pleading or proceeding filed or entered in any court of law or equity, or being or purporting to be any certificate, order, or allowance, by any competent court, board, or officer, or being or purporting to be any license or authority authorized by any statute, or any instrument or writing being or purporting to be the act of another, by which any pecuniary demand or obligation shall be or purport to be created, increased, discharged, or diminished, or by which any right or property whatever shall be or purport to be transferred, conveyed, discharged, diminished, or in any manner affected, by which false making, forging, altering or counterfeiting any person may be affected, bound, or in any way injured in his person or property, shall be guilty of forgery.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 97-21-1. Account books kept in public offices
§ 97-21-3. Account books kept by corporations
§ 97-21-5. Certain instruments deemed writings
§ 97-21-7. Certificate of acknowledgment or proof of deeds and other recordable instruments
§ 97-21-9. Certificate or public security, share in public stock or indorsement thereof
§ 97-21-11. Coin operated machines; use or sale of slug or other device
§ 97-21-13. Counterfeiting: currency or treasury notes of United States
§ 97-21-15. Counterfeiting: currency of foreign countries
§ 97-21-17. Counterfeiting: possession of counterfeit currency with intention to utter
§ 97-21-19. Corporate evidences of debt signed by pretended officer
§ 97-21-21. Destruction, erasure, or obliteration of writing deemed forgery
§ 97-21-31. Parts of several genuine instruments connected to make one instrument
§ 97-21-35. Pleadings, process and other court papers, licenses, or written instruments generally
§ 97-21-37. Possession of counterfeit bank notes or other instrument with intention to utter
§ 97-21-39. Railroad tickets; definition
§ 97-21-41. Railroad tickets; making or altering
§ 97-21-43. Railroad tickets; possession of forged or altered tickets
§ 97-21-47. Seal of state and other government and corporate seals or their impressions
§ 97-21-49. Selling or offering to sell counterfeit notes or other evidence of debt, etc.
§ 97-21-59. Uttering counterfeit instrument or coin
§ 97-21-63. Will, deed, certificate of acknowledgment or proof of recordable instrument