Larceny.
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shall be guilty of a misdemeanor triable summarily and on conviction thereof liable to imprisonment for one year. [50
Receiving stolen property.
6 & 7 Geo. 5,
52. (1) Any person who receives any property knowing the same to have been stolen or obtained in any way whatsoever under circumstances which amount to felony or misdemeanor, shall be guilty of an offence of the like degree (whether felony or misdemeanor) and on conviction thereof liable-
(a) in the case of felony, to imprisonment for fourteen years;
(b) in the case of misdemeanor, to imprisonment for seven years;
(c) in either case, if a male under the age of sixteen years, to be once privately whipped in addition to any other punishment to which he may by law be liable.
(2) Any such person may be indicted and convicted, whether the principal offender has or has not been previously convicted, or is or is not amenable to justice.
(3) Any person who, without lawful excuse, knowing the same to have been stolen or obtained in any way whatsoever under such circumstances that if the act had been committed in this Colony the person committing it would have been guilty of felony or misdemeanor, receives or has in his possession any property so stolen or obtained outside the Colony, shall be guilty of an offence of the like degree (whether felony or misdemeanor) and on conviction thereof liable to imprisonment for seven years.
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Receivers of stolen property, etc., where the stealing or taking of any property whatsoever is by this Ordinance punishable on summary conviction.
24 & 25 Vict.
53. Where the stealing or taking of any property whatsoever is by this Ordinance punishable on summary conviction, either for every offence, or for the first and second offence only, or for the first offence only, any person who receives any such property, knowing the same to be unlawfully come by, shall upon summary conviction be liable, for every first, second or subsequent offence of receiving, to the same punishment to which a person guilty of a first, second, or subsequent offence of stealing or taking such property is by this Ordinance made liable.
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