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Substitution of child
Cap. 101, s. 320 · Revised Edition 2020
Every person who with intent to defraud or injure any person, or with intent to pervert, obstruct or defeat the law with respect to inheritance or succession, falsely pretends that a child,
whether living or dead, is a legitimate child, or substitutes one child, whether living or dead, legitimate or illegitimate, for another child, whether living or dead, legitimate or illegitimate,
shall be liable to imprisonment for ten years.
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