CAP. 210]
Theft
[1986 Ed.
"Property".
1968, c. 60, s. 4.
(2) Where property or a right or interest in property is or purports to be transferred for value to a person acting in good faith, no later assumption by him of rights which he believed himself to be acquiring shall, by reason of any defect in the transferor's title, amount to theft of the property.
5. (1) "Property" includes money and all other property, real and personal, including things in action and other intangible property.
(2) A person cannot steal land, or things forming part of land and severed from it by him or by his directions, except in the following cases, that is to say-
(a) when he is a trustee or personal representative, or is authorized by power of attorney, or as liquidator of a company, or otherwise, to sell or dispose of land belonging to another, and he appropriates the land or anything forming part of it by dealing with it in breach of the confidence reposed in him; or
(b) when he is not in possession of the land and appropriates anything forming part of the land by severing it or causing it to be severed, or after it has been severed; or
(c) when, being in possession of the land under a tenancy, he appropriates the whole or part of any fixture or structure let to be used with the land.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2)—
"land" does not include incorporeal hereditaments;
"tenancy” means a tenancy for years or for any less period and includes an agreement for such a tenancy, but a person who after the end of a tenancy remains in possession by virtue of any Ordinance or otherwise is to be treated as having possession under the tenancy, and "let" shall be construed accordingly.
(4) A person who picks mushrooms growing wild on any land, or who picks flowers, fruit or foliage from a plant growing wild on any land, does not (although not in possession of the land) steal what he picks, unless he does it for reward or for sale or other commercial purpose.
(5) For the purposes of subsection (4) "mushroom" includes any fungus, and "plant" includes any shrub or tree.
(6) Wild creatures, tamed or untamed, shall be regarded as property; but a person cannot steal a wild creature not tamed nor ordinarily kept in captivity, or the carcass of any such creature, unless either it has been reduced into possession by or on behalf of another person and possession of it has not since been lost or abandoned, or another person is in course of reducing it into possession.
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