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See forgery: Offences under Part I of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981; Falsification of pedigree, contrary to section 183(1)(b) of the Law of Property Act 1925; Improper alteration of the registers, contrary to section 124 of the Land Registration Act 2002; Offences under section 8 of the Non-Parochial Registers Act 1840
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Forgery is one of the techniques of fraud, including identity theft. Forgery is one of the threats addressed by security engineering. In the 16th century, imitators of Albrecht Dürer's style of printmaking improved the market for their own prints by signing them "AD", making them forgeries. In the 20th century the art market made forgeries ...
Embezzlement is not always a form of theft or an act of stealing per se, since those definitions specifically deal with taking something that does not belong to the perpetrators. Instead, embezzlement is, more generically, an act of deceitfully secreting assets by one or more persons that have been entrusted with such assets.
At law, cheating is a specific criminal offence relating to property. Historically, to cheat was to commit a misdemeanour at common law . However, in most jurisdictions , the offence has now been codified into statute.
Uttering and forgery were originally common law offences, both misdemeanours. Forgery was the creation of a forged document, with the intent to defraud; whereas uttering was merely use – the passing – of a forged document, that someone else had made, with the intent to defraud.
A recent survey reports that younger generations are more likely to say that a relationship has to be physical in order for it to count as "cheating"—but is this spelling doom for future coupling?
Dishonesty has had a number of definitions. For many years, there were two views of what constituted dishonesty in English law.The first contention was that the definitions of dishonesty (such as those within the Theft Act 1968) described a course of action, whereas the second contention was that the definition described a state of mind.