Section 108: Forgery by private individual of public or commercial writing
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108. Forgery by private individual of public or commercial writing
Toutes autres personnes qui au- Any other person who commits a
ront commis un faux en écriture au- forgery in an authenticated and pubthentique et publique, ou en écriture lic writing, or in a commercial or
de commerce ou de banque— bank writing—
(a) soit par contrefaçon (a) by counterfeiting or alou altération d’écritures, tering any writing, date
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dates ou signatures, or signature, or by the
ou l’emploi d’un nom use of a fictitious name;
supposé;
(b) by fabricating any agree-
(b) soit par fabrication de ment, condition, obligaconventions, dispositions, tion or discharge, or inobligations ou décharges, serting it in any such act
ou par leur insertion après after it has been comcoup dans ces actes; pleted; or
(c) soit par addition aux clau- (c) by adding to any clause,
ses, déclarations ou faits statement or fact which
que ces actes avaient such act was intended
pour objet de recevoir et to contain and certify, or
de constater, ou par alté- by altering such clause,
ration des dites clauses, fact or statement,
faits ou déclarations,
shall be punished by penal servitude.
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