LA PCENY.
No. 5 of 1865.
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wife, widow, next of kin, or relation of any person, with intent fraudulently to obtain any land, estate, chattel, money, valuable security, or property, 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.
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 fourteen years, and, if a male under the age of sixteen 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.
80.(1) Every person who, without lawful excuse, receives or has in his possession, in the Colony, any property stolen outside the Colony, knowing such property to have been stolen, shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years.
(2) For the purpose of this section, property shall be deemed to have been stolen where it has been taken, extorted, obtained, embezzled, converted, or disposed of in such circumstances that, if the act had been committed in the Colony, the person committing it would have been guilty of an indictable offence according to the law for the time being in force in the Colony.
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923-
59 & 60 Vict. c. 5, s. 1.