Penal Code CAP 63▤
Housebreaking and burglary
(1) Any person who— (a) breaks and enters any building, tent or vessel used as a human dwelling with intent to commit a felony the…
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Penal Code CAP 63▤
Definition of breaking and entering
(1) A person who breaks any part, whether external or internal, of a building, or opens by unlocking, pulling, pushing, lifting or…
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Demanding property with menaces
Any person who, with intent to steal any valuable thing, demands it from any person with menaces or force is guilty of a felony an…
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Procuring execution of deeds, etc., by threats
Any person who, with intent to defraud, and by means of any unlawful violence to, or restraint of, the person of another, or by me…
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Attempts at extortion by threats
(1) Any person who, with intent to extort or gain anything from any person— (a) accuses or threatens to accuse any person of commi…
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Demanding property by written threats
Any person who, with intent to extort or gain anything from any person, and knowing the contents of the writing, causes any person…
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Assault with intent to steal
Any person who assaults any person with intent to steal anything is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five year…
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Attempted robbery
(1) Any person who assaults any person with intent to steal anything, and, at or immediately before or immediately after the time…
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Punishment of robbery
(1) Any person who commits the felony of robbery is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years. (2) If the offender is armed with a…
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Definition of robbery
Any person who steals anything, and, at or immediately before or immediately after the time of stealing it, uses or threatens to u…
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Unlawful use of vehicles, animals, etc.
Any person who unlawfully and without colour of right, but not so as to be guilty of stealing, takes or converts to his own use or…
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Fraudulent appropriation of power
Any person who fraudulently abstracts or diverts to his own use or to the use of any other person any mechanical, illuminating or…
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Fraudulently dealing with minerals in mines
Any person who takes, conceals or otherwise disposes of any ore or any metal or mineral in or about a mine, with intent to defraud…
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Fraudulent disposition of mortgaged goods
(1) Any person who, being the mortgagor of mortgaged goods, removes or disposes of the goods without the consent of the mortgagee,…
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Severing with intent to steal
Any person who makes anything movable with intent to steal it is guilty of an offence and is liable to the same punishment as if h…
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Killing animals with intent to steal
Any person who kills any animal capable of being stolen with intent to steal the skin or carcass, or any part of the skin or carca…
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Concealing deeds
Any person who, with intent to defraud, conceals the whole or part of any document which is evidence of title to any land or estat…
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Concealing wills
Any person who, with intent to defraud, conceals any testamentary instrument, whether the testator is living or dead is guilty of…
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Concealing registers
Any person who, with intent to defraud, conceals or takes from its place of deposit any register which is authorized or required b…
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Stealing after previous conviction
If the offender, before committing the theft, had been convicted of a theft punishable under any of sections 275 to 284 inclusive,…
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Stealing by tenants or lodgers
If the thing stolen is a fixture or chattel let to the offender to be used by him with a house or lodging, and its value exceeds o…
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Stealing by agents, etc.
If the thing stolen is any of the things following, that is to say— (a) property which has been received by the offender with a po…
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Stealing by directors or officers of companies
If the offender is a director or officer of a corporation or company, and the thing stolen is the property of the corporation or c…
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Stealing by clerks and servants
If the offender is a clerk or servant, and the thing stolen is the property of his employer, or came into the possession of the of…
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