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Crime > Forgery

Preferred term

Forgery  

Definition

  • Creation or alteration of valued objects or documents with intent to deceive; may range from counterfeiting of whole works to altering of signatures or other deliberate misrepresentations [AAT 94, alt.]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • ALTERATION, FORGERY
  • COUNTERFEITING, FORGERY
  • Fakes, forgery
  • FALSIFICATION, FORGERY
  • FORGERIES
  • IMITATIONS, FORGERIES

Notation

  • 110656

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-PFQSBM5T-8

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