Nigerian Penal Code Act

Section 362 - Making a false document defined.

A person is said to make a false document-

(a) who dishonestly or fraudulently makes, signs, seals or executes a document or part of a document or makes a mark denoting the execution of a document with the intention of causing it to be believed that the document or part of a document was made, signed, sealed or executed by or by the authority of a person by whom or by whose authority he knows that it was not made, signed, sealed or executed or at a time at which he knows that it was not made, signed, sealed or executed; or

(b) who without lawful authority dishonestly or fraudulently by cancellation or otherwise alters a document in a material part thereof after it has been made or executed either by himself or by any other person whether such person be living or dead at the time of that alteration; or

(c) who dishonestly or fraudulently causes a person to sign, seal, execute or alter a document knowing that the person by reason of unsoundness of mind or intoxication cannot or that by reason of deception practised upon him he does not know the contents' of the document or the nature of the alteration.

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