The Concept of Forgery Crime Under United Kingdom Law

Abstract

All world legislations, including the English Law, consider any action that changes the truth contained by a document as a forgery. These legislations incriminated and fought all actions constituting the forgery, though they differed in the methods of treatment and the amount of punishments. The English legislation dealt with forgery in a way that was mostly different to some extent. The English legislator introduced a wide concept of the subject matter of the forgery crime. Furthermore, this legislation combated all acts that may constitute the forgery crime through a special law for each act may contribute to such crime. These criminal acts would be punished if they were intentional and leading to induce a person to do or not to do an act. Whether they created benefits for the interest of perpetrator or caused harm to a victim.

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