Statutes | Muscogee (Creek) Nation Code Title 14, Chapter 2, Subchapter 4 ยง2-408 | 2018
In this subchapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:
A. ''Apparent legal significance'' means that it seems to be legal. Such an instrument need not create a valid and enforceable obligation. It is sufficient that the instrument could deceive another person.
B. ''Defraud'' means to misrepresent the validity of a writing.
C. ''False writing'' means one which was false from its inception or which became false through tampering with what was originally genuine. It is not a true and genuine instrument which merely contains false statements. A false writing includes all forms of printing.
D. ''Making'' means to create, sign, procure to be signed or to falsify by materially altering, erasing, marking or obliterating.
[NCA 10&ndash053, approved May 27, 2010.]
Historical and Statutory Notes
Derivation: Title 14, § 2&ndash406, added by NCA 92&ndash14, § 4&ndash706, amended by NCA 99&ndash04, § 107 NCA 07&ndash179, § 10.
Library References
False Pretenses O1.
Westlaw Topic No. 170.
C.J.S. False Pretenses §§ 1 to 6.