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ORDINANCE No. 5 of 1864.
Bankruptcy and Insolvency.
5. If he shall, with intent to defraud, wilfully and fraudulently omit from his schedule any effects or property whatsoever:
6. If he shall, after the filing of the petition for adjudication, with intent to conceal the state of his affairs, or to defeat the object of the law of bankruptcy, conceal, prevent, or withhold the production of any book, deed, paper, or writings relating to his property, dealings, or affairs:
7. If he shall, after the filing of the petition for adjudication, or within three months next before adjudication, with intent to conceal the state of his affairs, or to prevent the fair distribution of his property among his creditors, part with, conceal, destroy, alter, mutilate, or falsify, or cause to be concealed, destroyed, altered, mutilated, or falsified, any book, paper, writing, or security, or document relating to his property, trade, dealings, or affairs, or make or be privy to the making of any false or fraudulent entry or statement in or omission from any book, paper, document, or writing relating thereto:
8. If within the like time he shall, knowing that he is at the time unable to meet his engagements, fraudulently and with intent to diminish the sum to be divided amongst his creditors, have made away with, mortgaged, encumbered, or charged any part of his property, of what kind soever, or if after adjudication he shall conceal from the Court or his assignee any debt due to or from him:
9. If he shall, with intent to defraud his creditors, within three months next before the filing of the petition for adjudication, pawn, pledge, or dispose of, otherwise than by bona fide transactions in the ordinary way of his trade, or of his goods or chattels which have been obtained on credit and remain unpaid for:
10. If he shall, with intent to defraud his creditors, after the filing of any petition for adjudication by or against him, pay money to any creditor in satisfaction or security for his debt or for any part thereof, whereby such creditor may receive more in the pound in respect of his debt than the other creditors.
172. Any person who shall upon any examination upon oath or affirmation, or in any affidavit or deposition under this Ordinance, wilfully and corruptly give false evidence, or wilfully and corruptly swear or affirm anything which shall be false, being convicted thereof, shall be liable to the penalties of wilful and corrupt perjury.