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Riotous injury to building or machinery. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 97 s. 12.
Injury to dwelling house, etc., by tenant.
B. s. 13.
No. 6.] THE HONGKONG: [A.D. 1865.
A.D. 1865
(2.) any house, stable, coach-house, outhouse, warehouse, godown, office, shop, store, mill, store house, granary, hovel, shed, or fold, or any building or erection used in farming land or in carrying on any trade or manufacture or any branch thereof; or (3.) any building, other than such as are in this section before mentioned, belonging to the Queen or to the Colony, or devoted or dedicated to public use or ornament, or erected or maintained by public subscription or contribution; or
(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, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment with hard labour for life or for any term not less than three years or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour and with or without solitary confinement.
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 preceding section, every such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment with hard labour for any term not exceeding seven years and not less than three years or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour: Provided that if, on the trial of any person for any felony mentioned in the last preceding 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, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding ...
15. Every person who ... destroys, or ... machinery or ... used in any ... being convicted thereof, shall be liable to imprisonment with hard labour for any term not less than ... according to the circumstances, with or without solitary confinement.
16. Every person who ... field or piece of land ... vegetable produce ... wood, coppice, or fern, wheresoever ... and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable to imprisonment with hard labour for any term not exceeding seven years and not less than three years, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour and with or without solitary confinement.
17. Every person who ... or stack of ... vegetable produce or other substance ... convicted thereof ... shall be liable to imprisonment with hard labour for any term not exceeding ... or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, under the age of ...
18. Every person who ... attempts to set fire to ... of the last ... same were the ... sections, be ... convicted thereof ... shall be liable to imprisonment with hard labour ...
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Riotous in- jury to building or machinery. 24 & 25 ĺet. c. 97 s. 12.
Injury to dwelling
house, etc., by tenant.
B. s. 13.
No. 6.] THE OR
NGKONG: [A.D. 1865.
A.D. 1865
(2.) any house, stable, coach-house, outhouse, warehouse, godown, office, shop, store, mill, store house, granary, hovel, shed, or fold, or any building or erection used in farming land or in carrying on any trade or manufacture or any branch thereof; or (3.) any building, other than such as are in this section before men- tioned. belonging to the Queen or to the Colony, or devoted or dedicated to public use or ornament, or erected or maintained by publie subscription or contribution ; or
(-4.) any machinery, whether fixed or movable, prepared for or em- ployed in the business of any manufacture or in any branch thereof, every such offender shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment with hard labour for life or for any term not less than three years or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or with- out hard labour and with or without solitary confinement.
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 preceding section, every such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being con- victed thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to impri- sonment with hard labour for any term not exceeding seven years and not less than three years or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour: Provided that if, on the trial of any person for any felony mentioned in the last preceding 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 accord- ingly.
Injuries to Buildings by Tenants,
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(1.) pulls down or demolishes, or begins to pull down or demolish.
the same or any part thereof; or
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