D.C. Code § 22-1801 : CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE AND PRISONERS — CRIMINAL OFFENSES AND PENALTIES — CRIMINAL OFFENSES — GENERAL OFFENSES —1801 - "Writing" and "paper" defined TEXT PDF Except where otherwise provided for where such a construction would be unreasonable, the words "writing" and "paper," wherever mentioned in this title, are to be taken to include instruments wholly in writing or wholly printed, or partly printed and partly in writing. D.C. Code § 22-1801 Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1336, ch. 854, § 904; Dec. 1, 1982, D.C. Law 4-164,§ 601(b), 29 DCR 3976.