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forgery definition - legal

n

A false banknote, document, work of art, or other imitation of a thing of value, created to be passed off as real; the act of creating such an object.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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