Par. No.

1 – Article 171 RPC

Counterfeiting or imitating (feigning) any handwriting, signature

or rubric.

- The signature must be signed or made by the offender, without

authority to do so. (US vs. Paraiso, 1 Phil 66)
- Causing it to appear that persons have participated in any act or
proceeding when they did not in fact so participated

Requisites of Paragraph 1:

1. That there be an intent to imitate, or an attempt to imitate

2. That the two signatures or handwritings, the genuine and the
forged, bear some resemblance, to each other

Par. No. 2- Requisites of Par. No. 2

1. That the offender caused it to appear in a document that a

person/s participated in an act or a proceeding; and
2. That such person/s did not in fact so participate in the act or
proceeding.