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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>82586</law_id><section_number>18.2-171</section_number><catch_line>Making or having anything designed for forging any writing, etc</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 engrave, stamp, or cast, or otherwise make or mend, any plate, block, press, or other thing, adapted and designed for the forging and false making of any writing or other thing, the forging or false making whereof is punishable by this chapter, or if such person have in <span class="dictionary">possession</span> any such plate, block, press, or other thing, with <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to use, or cause or permit it to be used, in forging or false making any such writing or other thing, he shall be guilty of a Class 4 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-95; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
