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No. 6 of 1865.
MALICIOUS DAMAGE.
Riotous injury to building or machinery. (24 & 25 Vict. c. 97 s. 12.)
* Injury to dwelling house, etc., by tenant. [ib. s. 13.]
+ Destroying, etc., machine or engine. [ib. s. 15.] [cf. No. 8 of 1903.]
(4) any machinery, whether fixed or movable, prepared for or employed in the business of any manufacture or in any branch thereof.
every such offender shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for life.
13. If any persons, riotously and tumultuously assembled together to the disturbance of the public peace, unlawfully and with force injure or damage any such church, chapel, meeting house, place of divine worship, house, stable, coach-house, outhouse, warehouse, godown, office, shop, store, mill, store house, granary, hovel, shed, fold, building, erection, or machinery as is mentioned in the last section, every such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 7 years: Provided that if, on the trial of any person for any felony mentioned in the last section, the jury are not satisfied that such person is guilty thereof, but are satisfied that he is guilty of any offence mentioned in this section, then the jury may find him guilty thereof, and he may be punished accordingly.
Injuries to buildings by tenants.
14. Every person who, being possessed of any dwelling house or other building or part of any dwelling house or other building, held for any term of years, or other less term, or at will, or held over after the termination of any tenancy, unlawfully and maliciously—
(1) pulls down or demolishes, or begins to pull down or demolish, the same or any part thereof; or
(2) pulls down or severs from the freehold any fixture being fixed in or to such dwelling house or building or part of such dwelling house or building,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 18 months.
Injuries to machinery, etc.
15. Every person who unlawfully and maliciously cuts, breaks, or destroys, or damages with intent to destroy or to render useless, any machine or engine, whether fixed or movable, used or intended to be used in any manufacture whatsoever, shall be guilty of felony,
* As amended by No. 30 of 1911 and No. 50 of 1911.
† As amended by No. 30 of 1911.
and shall be liable to imprisonment for life, or for a term not exceeding 14 years, with or without whipping.
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field of cultivation, or on any heath, shall be ...
term not exceeding ... years, ...
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18. ... act after ... in either the same ... of such ... shall be ... and, if a ...
19. Every person who ... barks, roots, or ... part of a ... any place adjoining ... of the ... in felony, and ... ing 3 years without ...
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