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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>61755</law_id><section_number>18.2-169</section_number><catch_line>Forging, or keeping an instrument for forging, a seal</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="6">Crimes Involving Fraud</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Forgery</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If any person forge, or keep or conceal any instrument for the purpose of forging, the seal of the Commonwealth, the seal of a <span class="dictionary">court</span>, or of any public office, or body politic or corporate in this Commonwealth, he shall be guilty of a Class 4 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-93; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
