Every person who shall maliciously or fraudulently execute or file for record any instrument, or put forward any claim, by which the right or title of another to any real or personal property is, or purports to be transferred, encumbered or clouded, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
RCW 9.38.020
False representation concerning title.
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 26 Wash. App. 450 - Shutt v. Moore (1980)
Most recently applied in 3 Wash. 3d 648 - In re Disciplinary Proc. Against Huynh (September 2024)
2000 c 250 s 9A-821; 1909 c 249 s 369; RRS s 2621.
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