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Deeds, &c. relating to real property.
Form of indictment.
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28. Whosoever shall steal, or shall for any fraudulent purpose destroy, cancel, obliterate, or conceal, the whole or any part of any document of title to lands shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable . . . to be kept in penal servitude . . .; and in any indictment for any such offence relating to any document of title to lands, it shall be sufficient to allege such document to be or to contain evidence of the title or of part of the title of the person or of some one of the persons having an interest, whether vested or contingent, legal or equitable, in the real estate to which the same relates, and to mention such real estate or some part thereof.
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