The Crime of Forgery in Massachusetts. Forgery, or the common law crime of the falsification of a document, signature, or banknote, is covered under a number of statutes in Massachusetts law.Uttering is a crime that involves the act of passing or using a forged document, like uttering a forged check. Forgery is the creation, altering, forging, or imitating of any document with the intent to defraud another person. Under Massachusetts law, a forgery of a deed conveys no title. To have a forgery, something relating to a legal document itself, as distinguished from its contents, must be false.