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Wash. Rev. Code § 9.38.020 (2026)

False representation concerning title

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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.
[2000 c 250 s 9A-821; 1909 c 249 s 369; RRS s 2621.]

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Effective date—2000 c 250: See RCW 62A.9A-701.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1980–2024 · leading case: In re Disciplinary Proc. Against Huynh, 555 P.3d 398 (Wash. 2024).
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In re Disciplinary Proc. Against Huynh, 555 P.3d 398 (Wash. 2024). · cites it 6× “4(b) (by committing the crime of false representation concerning title as defined in RCW 9.38.020), RPC 8.4(c), RPC 8.4(i), and/or RPC 8.”
State v. White, 644 P.2d 693 (Wash. Ct. App. 1982). · cites it 2× “020(1) and one count of making a false representation concerning title in violation of RCW 9.38.020. The trial court, sitting without a jury, found White not guilty on counts 2 and 3 and guilty on count 1, perjury in the first degree.”
Shutt v. Moore, 613 P.2d 1188 (Wash. Ct. App. 1980). “2d 964 (1974), and to criminal charges of maliciously clouding title to real property, RCW 9.38.020. So far as the present appeal is concerned, we are of the opinion that it, too, is frivolous and taken for the purpose of delay.”
Mark & Julie Daviscourt v. Quality Loan Servs. (Wash. Ct. App. 2017). · cites it 2× “Even assuming that the defendants recorded documents containing some false information, the Daviscourts have not produced evidence that the defendants' acts violated either statute. First, under RCW 9.38.020, "[e]very person who shall maliciously or fraudulently execute or file…”
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