LARCENY.
No. 5 of 1865.
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other person to execute, make, accept, indorse, or destroy the whole or any part of any valuable security, or to write, impress, or affix his name, or the name of any other person or of any company, firm, or copartnership, or the seal of any body corporate, company, or society, upon any paper or parchment, in order that the same may be afterwards made or converted into or used or dealt with as a valuable security, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 3 years.
next
in order to obtain pro-
137 & 38 Vict.
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78.--(1) Every person who falsely and deceitfully personates any person, or the heir, executor, or administrator, wife, widow, or kin, or relation of any person, with intent fraudulently to obtain any land, estate, chattel, money, valuable security, or property, &c. [24 & 25 Vict. c. 38 ss. 1, 2.] shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for life. (2) Nothing in this section shall prevent any person from being proceeded against and punished under any other enactment or at common law in respect of an offence, if any, punishable as well under this section as under any other enactment or at common law.
Receiving stolen property.
stolen property where
is guilty of [24 & 25 Vict. c. 96 s. 91.] felony.
79-(1) Every person who receives any chattel, money, valuable security, or other property whatsoever, the stealing, taking, extorting, obtaining, embezzling, or otherwise disposing whereof amounts to a felony, either at common law or by virtue of this Ordinance, knowing the same to have been feloniously stolen, taken, extorted, obtained, embezzled, or disposed of, shall be guilty of felony, and may be indicted and convicted either as an accessory after the fact or for a substantive felony, and, in the latter case, whether the principal felon has or has not been previously convicted or is or is not amenable to justice.
(2) Every such receiver, however convicted, shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 14 years, and, if a male under the age of 16 years, with or without whipping: Provided that no person, however tried for receiving as aforesaid, shall be liable to be prosecuted a second time for the same offence.
cf. No. 6 of
No. 3 of
80.-(1) Every person who, without lawful excuse, receives or has in his possession, in this Colony, any property stolen outside the Colony, knowing such property to have been stolen, shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 7 years.
*As amended by No. 30 of 1911.
[59 & 60 Vict. c. 52 s. 1.]
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