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A.D. 1865.]
LARCENI.
[No. 5.
under this Ordinance, the Court may direct the offender to be kept in solitary confinement for any portion or portions of his imprisonment, or of his imprisonment with hard labour, not exceeding one month at any one time and not exceeding three months in any one year.
ORDINANCE No. 5 OF 1865.
187
of solitary 24 & 25 Viet. c. 98 s. 53.
confinement.
Vide also
Ordee. No 3
AN ORDINANCE to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to A.D. 1865.
Larceny and similar Offences.
BE
[14th June, 1865.]
Ordinance No. 7 of 1865, with Ordi- nances No. 3 of 1875, No. 3 of 1886, No. 7
s.
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the
of 1891 s. 84
Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--
1. This Ordinance may be cited as "the Larceny Ordinance, 1865."
2. In this Ordinance--
“Document of Title to Goods" includes any bill of lading, India warrant, dock warrant, warehouse keepers' certificate, warrant or order for the delivery or transfer of any goods or valuable thing, bought and sold note, or any other document used in the ordinary course of business as proof of the possession or control of goods, or authorizing or purporting to authorize, either by indorsement or by delivery, the possessor of such document to transfer or receive any goods thereby represented or therein mentioned or referred to: "Trustee" means a trustee on some express trust created by some deed, will, or instrument in writing, and includes the heir or per- sonal representative of any such trustee, and any other person upon or to whom the duty of such trust has devolved or come, and also an executor and administrator and an official manager, assignee, liquidator, or other like officer acting under any present or future Ordinance relating to joint stock companies, bankruptcy, or insol-
vency:
“Valuable Security" includes any order or other security what- soever entitling or evidencing the title of any person or body cor- porate to any share or interest in any public stock or fund, whether of the United Kingdom, or of Great Britain, or of Ireland, or of any Foreign State, or in any fund of any body corporate, company, or society, whether within this Colony, or in the United Kingdom, or in any Foreign State or country, or to any deposit in any bank, and also includes any debenture, deed, bond, bill, note, warrant, order, or other security whatsoever for money or for payment of money, whether of this Colony, or of the United Kingdom, or of
(2), and No. 26 of 1900 incorporated.
Short title.
Interpreta
tion of terms.
24 & 25 Vict.
c. 96 s. 1.
of 1903