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Stealing records or other legal documents.
Form of information,
Metal, glass, wood &c., fixed to house or land,
ORDINANCE No. 7 of 1865.
Larceny, &c.
any party aggrieved, or if he shall have first disclosed the same in any compulsory examination or deposition before any Court upon the hearing of any matter in bankruptcy.
any
20. Whosoever shall steal, or shall for fraudulent purpose take from its place of deposit for the time being, or from any person having the lawful custody thereof, or shall unlawfully and maliciously cancel, obliterate, injure, or destroy the whole or any part of any record, writ, return, panel, process, interrogatory, deposition, affidavit, rule, order, or warrant of attorney, or of any original document whatsoever of or belonging to any Court of Record in this Colony, or relating to any matter, civil or criminal, begun, depending, or terminated in any such Court, or of any bill, petition, answer, interrogatory, deposition, affidavit, order, or decree, or of any original document whatsoever of or belonging to any Court of Equity, or relating to any cause or matter begun, depending or terminated in any such Court, or of any original document in anywise relating to the business of any office or employment under Her Majesty, and being or remaining in any office appertaining to any Court of Justice, or in any Government or public office, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for the term of three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping; and it shall not in any information for such offence be necessary to allege that the article in respect of which the offence is committed is the property of any person.
As to Larceny of Things attached to or growing on Land:-
21. Whosoever shall steal, or shall rip, cut, sever, or break with intent to steal, any glass, shingles, or wood-work belonging to any building whatsoever, or any lead, iron, copper, brass, or other metal, or any utensil or fixture, whether made of metal or other material or of both, respectively fixed in or to any building whatsoever, or any thing made of metal fixed in any land being private property, or for a fence to any dwelling house, garden, or area, or in any square or street, or in any place dedicated to public use or ornament, or in any burial ground, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable to be punished as in the case of simple larceny; and in the case of any