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Larceny, etc., of documents

of title to land and

other legal documents.

24 & 25

Vict. c. 96, ss. 28 &

30.

c. 50, s. 7.

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14. Every person who steals, or for any fraudulent purpose takes from its place of deposit for the time being, or from any person having the lawful custody thereof, or unlaw- fully and maliciously destroys, cancels, obliterates or conceals, the whole or any part of—

(a) any document of title to lands; or

(b) any record, writ, return, panel, petition, process, 6 & 7 Geo. 5, interrogatory, deposition, affidavit, rule, order, warrant of attorney, or any original document of or belonging to any court, or relating to any cause or matter, civil or criminal, begun, depending, or terminated in any such court; or

Fraudulent destruction, etc., of valuable security.

24 & 25

Vict. c. 96, s. 27.

Larceny, etc., of fixtures, trees, etc.

(c) any original document relating to the business of any office or employment under His Majesty, and being or remaining in any office appertaining to any court or in any government or public office;

shall be guilty of felony and on conviction thereof liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding five years.

15. Every person who for any fraudulent purpose des- troys, cancels, or obliterates, the whole or any part of any valuable security, other than a document of title to lands, shall be guilty of felony, of the same nature and in the same degree and punishable in the same manner as if he had stolen any chattel of like value with the share, interest, or deposit to which the security so stolen may relate, or with the money due on the security so stolen, or secured thereby and remaining unsatisfied, or with the value of the goods or other valuable thing represented, mentioned, or referred to in or by the security.

Larceny of things attached to or growing on land.

16. Every person who--

(1) steals, or, with intent to steal, rips, cuts, severs or

6 & 7 Geo. 5, breaks- c. 50, s. 8.

(a) any glass or woodwork belonging to any building; or (b) any metal or utensil or fixture, fixed in or to any building; or

(c) anything made of metal fixed in any land being private property, or as a fence to any dwelling-house, garden or area, cr in any square or street, or in any place dedicated to public use or ornament,

or in

any burial-ground:

(2) steals, or, with intent to steal, cuts, breaks, roots up or otherwise destroys or damages the whole or any part of any tree, sapling, shrub, or underwood growing-

(a) in any place whatsoever, the value of the article stolen or the injury done being to the amount of fifty cents at the least, after two previous summary convictions of any such offence; or

(b) in any park, pleasure ground, garden, orchard, or avenue, or in any ground adjoining or belonging to any dwell- ing-house, the value of the article stolen or the injury done exceeding the amount of ten dollars; or

(c) in any place whatsoever, the value of the article stolen or the injury done exceeding the amount of fifty dollars: