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<section article="gcr" article_name="Criminal Law" number="8-701" title_number="8" title_name="Fraud and Related Crimes" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Crimes Against Estates">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A person may not willfully or corruptly embezzle, steal, destroy, withdraw, impair, or alter a will, codicil, deed, land patent or assignment of a land patent, or a writ of administration, return, record, or part of any of those documents if as a result of that act the estate or right of any person may be defeated, injured, or altered.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment for not less than 3 years and not exceeding 7 years.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A person who violates this section is subject to § 5-106(b) of the Courts Article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
