Section 227 - Concealing birth
Any person who, when a woman is delivered of a child, endeavours by any secret disposition of the dead body of the child to conceal the birth, whether the child died before, at or after its birth, is...
Section 228 - Killing unborn child
Any person who, when a woman is about to be delivered of a child, prevents the child from being born alive by any act or omission of such a nature that, if the child had been born alive and had then...
Section 232 - Preventing escape from wreck
Any person who unlawfully—
(a) prevents or obstructs any person who is on board of, or is escaping from, a vessel which is in distress or wrecked, in his endeavours to save his life; or...
Section 234 - Grievous harm
Any person who unlawfully does grievous harm to another is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for life.
Section 237 - Unlawful wounding or poisoning.
Any person who—
(a) unlawfully wounds another; or
(b) unlawfully, and with intent to injure or annoy any person, causes any poison or other noxious thing to be administered to, or taken by, any...
Section 238 - Intimidation and molestation.
(1) Any person who intimidates or molests any other person is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years.
[Act No. 54 of 1960, s. 29.]
(2) A person...
Section 239 - Failure to supply necessaries
Any person who, being charged with the duty of providing for another the necessaries of life, without lawful excuse fails to do so, whereby the life of that other person is or is likely to be...
Section 240 - Surgical operation
A person is not criminally responsible for performing in good faith and with reasonable care and skill a surgical operation upon any person for his benefit, or upon an unborn child for the...
Section 241 - Excess of force
Any person authorized by law or by the consent of the person injured by him to use force is criminally responsible for any excess, according to the nature and quality of the act which constitutes the...
Section 242 - Consent
Notwithstanding anything contained in section 241, consent by a person to the causing of his own death or his own maim does not affect the criminal responsibility of any person by whom the death or...
Section 243 - Reckless and negligent acts
Any person who, in a manner so rash or negligent as to endanger human life or to be likely to cause harm to any other person—
(a) drives any vehicle or rides on any public way; or
(b) navigates,...
Section 244 - Other negligent acts causing harm.
Any person who unlawfully does any act, or omits to do any act which it is his duty to do, not being an act or omission specified in section 243 by which act or omission harm is caused to any person,...
Section 250 - Common assault
Any person who unlawfully assaults another is guilty of a misdemeanour and, if the assault is not committed in circumstances for which a greater punishment is provided in this Code, is liable to...
Section 252 - Assault on persons protecting wreck
Any person who assaults and strikes or wounds any magistrate, officer or other person lawfully authorized in or on account of the execution of his duty in or concerning the preservation of any vessel...
Section 253 - Other assaults
Any person who—
(a) assaults any person with intent to commit a felony or to resist or
prevent the lawful apprehension or detainer of himself or of any other person for any offence; or...
Section 254 - Definition of kidnapping from Kenya
Any person who conveys any person beyond the limits of Kenya without the consent of that person, or of some person legally authorized to consent on behalf of that person, is said to kidnap that person...
Section 266A - Offences Under Part
Where it appears that any of the offences specified under this Part is committed for the purpose of exploitation, the person committing the offence shall be charged with the appropriate offence as...
Section 267 - Things capable of being stolen
(1) Every inanimate thing whatever which is the property of any person, and which is movable, is capable of being stolen.
(2) Every inanimate thing which is the property of any person, and which is...
Section 268 - Definition of stealing
(1) A person who fraudulently and without claim of right takes anything capable of being stolen, or fraudulently converts to the use of any person, other than the general or special owner thereof, any...
Section 269 - Special cases
(1) When a factor or agent pledges or gives a lien on any goods or document of title to goods entrusted to him for the purpose of sale or otherwise for any sum of money not greater than the amount due...
Section 270 - Funds, etc., held under direction
When a person receives, either alone or jointly with another person, any money or valuable security or a power of attorney for the sale, mortgage, pledge or other disposition of any property, whether...
Section 272 - Money received for another
When a person receives, either alone or jointly with another person, any money on behalf of another, the money is deemed to be the property of the person on whose behalf it is received, unless the...
Section 274 - Husband and wife
A person who, while a man and his wife are living together, procures either of them to deal with anything which is, to his knowledge, the property of the other in a manner which would be theft if they...
Section 275 - General punishment for theft
Any person who steals anything capable of being stolen is guilty of the felony termed theft and is liable, unless owing to the circumstances of the theft or the nature of the thing stolen some other...
Section 276 - Stealing wills
If the thing stolen is a testamentary instrument, whether the testator is living or dead, the offender is liable to imprisonment for ten years.