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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>73320</law_id><section_number>61.1-6</section_number><catch_line>Fraudulent negotiation of receipt for mortgaged goods</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="61.1">Warehouses, Cold Storage and Refrigerated Locker Plants</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="1">Warehouse Receipts</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any person who deposits goods to which he has not title, upon which there is a <span class="dictionary">lien</span> or security interest, and who takes for such goods a negotiable receipt which he afterwards negotiates for value with <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to deceive, and without disclosing his want of title or the existence of the <span class="dictionary">lien</span> or security interest, shall be guilty of a <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>, and upon <span class="dictionary">conviction</span> shall be punished as provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Same; where no punishment or maximum punishment prescribed" href="/18.2-12/">18.2-12</a>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 61-58; 1968, c. 69.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
