New Jersey legal term
Writing in New Jersey Criminal Law
Current through 2026 New Jersey legislative session
In New Jersey criminal law, “Writing” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the New Jersey criminal code.
What does “Writing” mean in New Jersey criminal law?
"Writing" includes printing or any other method of recording information, money, coins, tokens, stamps, seals, credit cards, badges, trademarks, access devices, and other symbols of value, right, privilege, or identification, including retail sales receipts, universal product code (UPC) labels and checks. (N.J.S.A. 2C:21-1)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Bad checks, money orders, electronic funds transfers
- Frauds relating to public records and recordable instruments
- Possession of gambling records
- Producing, selling, offering, displaying, possessing, fraudulent motor vehicle insurance ID cards; penalties
- Resisting arrest, eluding officer
- Unsworn falsification to authorities
- Wrongful credit practices and related offenses
- Application of public health emergency credits to juvenile
- Credit cards
- Employer requiring lie detector test
- Falsifying or tampering with records
- Fraud in insolvency
Related terms in the same statutes
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