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MS Code § 97-21-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-19. Corporate evidences of debt signed by pretended officer

 The false making, forging, or counterfeiting of any evidence of debt issued, or purporting to have been issued, by any corporation having authority for that purpose, to which shall be affixed the pretended signature of any person as an agent or officer of such corporation, shall be forgery, in the same manner as if such person was at the time an officer or agent of such corporation, notwithstanding there never was any such person in existence.
MS Code § 97-21-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-21. Destruction, erasure, or obliteration of writing deemed forgery

 The total erasure, obliteration, or destruction of any instrument of writing, with the intent to defraud, by which any pecuniary obligation or any right, interest, or claim to property, shall be or shall be intended to be created, increased, discharged, diminished, or in any manner affected, shall be forgery in the same manner and in the same degree as the false alteration of any part of such instrument of writing.
MS Code § 97-21-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-23. Engraving or possessing plate for printing bank check, note or other evidence of debt; possessing impressions made from such plate

 Every person who shall be convicted of having made or engraved, or having caused or procured to be made or engraved, any plate in the form or similitude of any promissory note, bill of exchange, draft, check, certificate of deposit, or other evidence of debt, issued by any incorporated bank in this state, or by any bank incorporated under the laws of the United States, or of any state or territory, or under the laws of any foreign country or government, without the authority of such bank, with the intent of using or having the same used for the purpose of taking therefrom any impression, to be passed, sold, or altered, or of having made or caused to be made, or having in his custody or possession any plate upon which shall be engraved any figures or words which may be used for the purpose of falsely altering any evidence of debt issued by any such incorporated bank, with the intent of having the same used for such purpose, or of having or keeping in his custody or possession, without the authority of such bank, any impression taken from any such plate, with intent to have the same filled up and completed for the purpose of being passed, sold, or uttered, shall be guilty of forgery.
MS Code § 97-21-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-25. Engraving or possessing plate for printing bank check, note or other evidence of debt; when plate deemed imitation of genuine instrument

 Every plate specified in Section 97-21-23, shall be deemed to be in the form and similitude of the genuine instrument imitated, in either of the following cases: When the engraving on such plate resembles and is intended to conform to such parts of the genuine instrument as are engraved; or when such plate shall be partly finished, and the part so finished resembles and is intended to conform to similar parts of the genuine instrument.
MS Code § 97-21-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-27. Intent to defraud

 Whenever, by any of the provisions of this chapter, an intent to defraud is required to constitute a forgery, it shall be sufficient if such intent appear to defraud the United States, any state or territory, and body-corporate, county, city, town, or village, or any public officer in his official capacity, any copartnership, or any one of such partners, or any real person whatever.
MS Code § 97-21-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-29. Making and uttering instrument in own name under pretense that it is act of another of same name

 If any person shall, with intent to injure or defraud, make any instrument in his own name, intended to create, increase, discharge, defeat, or diminish any pecuniary obligation, right or interest, or to transfer or affect any property whatever, and shall utter and pass it under the pretense that it is the act of another who bears the same name, he shall be guilty of forgery and shall be punished according to the schedule in Section 97-21-33.
MS Code § 97-21-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-31. Parts of several genuine instruments connected to make one instrument

 When different parts of several genuine instruments shall be so placed or connected together as to produce one instrument, with intent to defraud, the same shall be forgery, in the same manner as if the parts so put together were falsely made or forged.
MS Code § 97-21-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-35. Pleadings, process and other court papers, licenses, or written instruments generally

 Every person who, with the intent to injure or defraud, shall falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit any instrument or writing being or purporting to be any process issued by any competent court, magistrate, or officer, or being or purporting to be any pleading or proceeding filed or entered in any court of law or equity, or being or purporting to be any certificate, order, or allowance, by any competent court, board, or officer, or being or purporting to be any license or authority authorized by any statute, or any instrument or writing being or purporting to be the act of another, by which any pecuniary demand or obligation shall be or purport to be created, increased, discharged, or diminished, or by which any right or property whatever shall be or purport to be transferred, conveyed, discharged, diminished, or in any manner affected, by which false making, forging, altering or counterfeiting any person may be affected, bound, or in any way injured in his person or property, shall be guilty of forgery.
MS Code § 97-21-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-37. Possession of counterfeit bank notes or other instrument with intention to utter

 Every person who shall have in his possession any forged, altered or counterfeited negotiable note, bill, draft, or other evidence of debt issued or purported to have been issued by any corporation or company duly authorized for that purpose by the laws of the United States or of this state, or of any other state, government, or country, or any other forged, altered, or counterfeit, instrument the forgery of which is declared by the provisions of this chapter to be punishable, knowing the same to be forged, altered, or counterfeited, with intention to utter the same as true or as false, or to cause the same to be uttered, with intent to injure or defraud, shall be guilty of forgery and shall be punished according to the schedule in Section 97-21-33.
MS Code § 97-21-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-39. Railroad tickets; definition

 The words "railroad passenger ticket," as used in Sections 97-21-41 and 97-21-43, shall be construed to embrace any ticket, card, pass, certificate, or paper, providing or intending to provide for the carriage or transportation of any person or persons upon any railroad, and shall include not only such tickets fully prepared for use, but those not so fully prepared, and all others which have been once used.
MS Code § 97-21-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-41. Railroad tickets; making or altering

 Every person who shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit any railroad passenger ticket, purporting to be made or issued by any railroad company or companies, with intent to injure or defraud, or who shall, with like intent, alter any railroad passenger ticket made or issued by any railroad company or companies, shall be guilty of forgery.
MS Code § 97-21-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-43. Railroad tickets; possession of forged or altered tickets

 Every person who shall sell or offer to sell, or who shall have in his possession with intent to sell, any such false, forged, altered or counterfeit railroad passenger ticket, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered, or counterfeit, shall be guilty of forgery.
MS Code § 97-21-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-45. Record of will or other instrument constituting evidence, judgment or decree of court, or return on process

 Every person who, with intent to defraud, shall falsely alter, destroy, corrupt, or falsify the record of any will, conveyance or other instrument the record of which shall by law be evidence, or any record or any judgment or decree of a court of record, or the enrollment of any such judgment or decree, or the return of an officer, court, or tribunal, to any process of any court, or who shall falsely make, forge, or alter any entry in any book of record, or any instrument purporting to be any such record or return, with intent to defraud, shall, upon conviction, be guilty of forgery.
MS Code § 97-21-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-47. Seal of state and other government and corporate seals or their impressions

 Every person who shall forge or counterfeit the great seal of this state, the seal of any public office or officer authorized by law, the seal of any court of record, the seal of any county, city, town or village, or the seal of any body-corporate, duly incorporated, or who shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit any impression purporting to be the impression of any such seal, with intent to defraud, shall be guilty of forgery.
MS Code § 97-21-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-49. Selling or offering to sell counterfeit notes or other evidence of debt, etc.

 Every person who shall be convicted of having sold, exchanged, or delivered, for any consideration, any forged or counterfeited promissory note, check, bill, draft or other evidence of debt, or engagement for the payment of money, absolutely, or upon contingency, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, with the intent to have the same uttered or passed; or of having offered any such notes or other instruments for sale, exchange, or delivery, for any consideration, with the like knowledge and with the like intention, shall be guilty of forgery.
MS Code § 97-21-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-51. Unauthorized use or signing of another's name to telegram, petition or related communication

 If any person shall wilfully and falsely, or fraudulently forge, sign, or otherwise use the name of another person to a telegram, petition or related communication or instrument of writing with intent to deceive, defraud, or for personal gain or benefit, or for the benefit of another person, without the express written approval of such person, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 90 days and by a fine of not more than $500.00, or both in the discretion of the court.
MS Code § 97-21-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-53. Trade-marks; counterfeiting and forging of

  Every person who shall knowingly and willfully forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be forged or counterfeited, any representation, likeness, similitude, copy, or imitation of the private stamp, wrappers, or labels usually fixed by any mechanic or manufacturer to, and used by such mechanic or manufacturer on, in, or about the sale of any goods, wares, or merchandise whatsoever, shall be punished as follows:   If the goods or services to which the forged or counterfeit representation, likeness, similitude, copy of imitation of the private stamp, wrappers or labels are attached or affixed, or in connection with which they are used, or to which the offender intended they be attached or affixed, or in connection with which the offender intended they be used, have, in the aggregate, a retail value of the goods if they were not forged or counterfeited of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or more, the person shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, may be imprisoned for up to five (5) years and fined up to Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00); or   If the goods or services to which the forged or counterfeit representation, likeness, similitude, copy, or imitation of the private stamp, wrappers, or labels are attached or affixed, or in connection with which they are used, or to which the offender intended they be attached or affixed, or in connection with which the offender intended they be used, have, in the aggregate, a retail value of less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), the person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, may be imprisoned for up to one (1) year and fined up to Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00).     Property used in any way to violate the provisions of this section shall be subject to forfeiture under Sections 97-21-101 and 97-21-103.
MS Code § 97-21-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-55. Trade-marks; possession of dies, plates, printed label or any imitation for purpose of vending imitation goods

  Every person who shall have in his possession any die, plate, engraving, or printed label, stamp, or wrapper, or any representation, likeness, similitude, copy, or imitation of the private stamp, wrapper, or label usually fixed by any mechanic or manufacturer to, and used by such mechanic or manufacturer on, in, or about the sale of any goods, wares, or merchandise, with intent to use or sell the said die, plate or engraving, or printed stamp, label, or wrapper, for the purpose of aiding or assisting, in any way whatever, in vending any goods, wares, or merchandise in imitation of, or intended to resemble and be sold for the goods, wares, or merchandise of such mechanic or manufacturer, shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years and a fine of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00).   Property used in any way to violate the provisions of this section shall be subject to forfeiture under Sections 97-21-101 and 97-21-103.
MS Code § 97-21-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-57. Trade-marks; sale of goods bearing counterfeit stamp or label

  Every person who shall sell, vend, or possess with intent to sell or vend any goods, wares, or merchandise having thereon any forged or counterfeit stamp or label, imitating, resembling, or purporting to be the stamp or label of any mechanic or manufacturer, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, and resembling or purporting to be imitations of the stamps or labels of such mechanic or manufacturer shall be punished as follows:   If the goods or services to which the forged or counterfeit representation, likeness, similitude, copy, or imitation of the private stamp, wrappers, or labels are attached or affixed, or in connection with which they are used, or to which the offender intended they be attached or affixed, or in connection with which the offender intended they be used, have, in the aggregate, a retail value of the goods if they were not forged or counterfeited of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or more, the person shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, may be imprisoned for up to five (5) years and fined up to Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00); or   If the goods or services to which the forged or counterfeit representation, likeness, similitude, copy, or imitation of the private stamp, wrappers, or labels are attached or affixed, or in connection with which they are used, or to which the offender intended they be attached or affixed, or in connection with which the offender intended they be used, have, in the aggregate, a retail value of the goods if they were not forged or counterfeited of less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), the person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, may be imprisoned for up to one (1) year and fined up to Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00).     Property used in any way to violate the provisions of this section shall be subject to forfeiture under Sections 97-21-101 and 97-21-103.
MS Code § 97-21-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-59. Uttering counterfeit instrument or coin

 Every person who shall be convicted of having uttered or published as true, and with intent to defraud, any forged, altered, or counterfeit instrument, or any counterfeit gold or silver coin, the forgery, altering, or counterfeiting of which is declared by the provisions of this chapter to be an offense, knowing such instrument or coin to be forged, altered, or counterfeited, shall suffer the punishment herein provided for forgery, pursuant to Section 97-21-33.
MS Code § 97-21-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-61. Warrants on state treasury, United States treasury, or county, city, town or village treasury

 If any person shall falsely or fraudulently make, forge, or alter any writing, being, or pretending to be, an auditor's warrant on the state treasury, or any order or warrant on the treasury of this state or the treasury of the United States, or of any county, or of any city, town, or village, with intent to defraud the state, the United States, or any county, city, village, or town, or any person, he shall be guilty of forgery.
MS Code § 97-21-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 21 - Forgery and Counterfeiting|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 97-21-63. Will, deed, certificate of acknowledgment or proof of recordable instrument

 Every person who shall be convicted of having forged, counterfeited, or falsely altered any will of real or personal property, or any deed or other instrument, being or purporting to be the act of another by which any right or interest in real or personal property shall be or purport to be transferred, conveyed, or in any way changed or affected; or any certificate or indorsement of the acknowledgment of any person of any deed or other instrument which by law may be recorded, made or purporting to have been made by any officer duly authorized to make such certificate or indorsement; or any certificate of the proof of any deed or other instrument which by law may be recorded, made or purporting to have been made by any officer duly authorized to make such certificate, with intent to defraud, shall be guilty of forgery.
MS Code § 97-29-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 29 - Crimes Against Public Morals and Decency|In General|§ 97-29-1. Adultery and fornication; unlawful cohabitation

 If any man and woman shall unlawfully cohabit, whether in adultery or fornication, they shall be fined in any sum not more than five hundred dollars each, and imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months; and it shall not be necessary, to constitute the offense, that the parties shall dwell together publicly as husband and wife, but it may be proved by circumstances which show habitual sexual intercourse.
MS Code § 97-29-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 29 - Crimes Against Public Morals and Decency|In General|§ 97-29-3. Adultery and fornication; between teacher and pupil

 If any teacher and any pupil under eighteen (18) years of age of such teacher, not being married to each other, shall have sexual intercourse, each with the other, they shall, for every such offense, be fined in any sum, not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) each, and the teacher may be imprisoned not less than three (3) months nor more than six (6) months.
MS Code § 97-29-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 29 - Crimes Against Public Morals and Decency|In General|§ 97-29-5. Adultery and fornication; between certain persons forbidden to inter-marry

 Persons being within the degrees within which marriages are prohibited by law to be incestuous and void, or persons who are prohibited from marrying by reason of blood and between whom marriage is declared to be unlawful and void, who shall cohabit, or live together as husband and wife, or be guilty of a single act of adultery or fornication, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term not exceeding ten (10) years.
MS Code § 97-29-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 29 - Crimes Against Public Morals and Decency|In General|§ 97-29-7. Adultery and fornication; between guardian and ward

 If any guardian and ward of such guardian, not being married to each other, shall have sexual intercourse each with the other, they shall for every such offense be fined in any sum not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) each and the guardian shall be imprisoned not less than three (3) months nor more than six (6) months.
MS Code § 97-29-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 29 - Crimes Against Public Morals and Decency|In General|§ 97-29-9. Adultery and fornication; going out of state to marry

 If any persons, citizens or residents of this state, who are prohibited by the laws thereof from marrying, because of kindred, shall go out of this state for the purpose of marrying, and shall marry in any other state or country and return to this state and live together and cohabit as man and wife, or be guilty of a single act of copulation, they shall, on conviction, be punished, notwithstanding their marriage out of this state, by imprisonment in the penitentiary not longer than ten years, or be fined five hundred dollars, or both.
MS Code § 97-29-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 97 - Crimes|Chapter 29 - Crimes Against Public Morals and Decency|In General|§ 97-29-11. Illegitimate children; person becoming natural parent of second illegitimate child; jurisdiction

  If any person, who shall have previously become the natural parent of an illegitimate child within or without this state by coition within or without this state, shall again become the natural parent of an illegitimate child born within this state, he or she shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days or by a fine of not more than Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00), or both. A subsequent conviction hereunder shall be punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than three (3) months nor more than six (6) months or by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or both. Provided, however, that for the purpose of this section, multiple births shall be construed to be the birth of one (1) child.   The circuit court of the county in which said illegitimate child is born shall have jurisdiction of any action brought under this section. No male person shall be convicted solely on the uncorroborated testimony of the female person giving birth to the child.