The Larceny Act
The Larceny Act
The Larceny Act
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
1. Short title.
PART I. Inferprefafion
2. Interpretation.
3. Definitions.
4. Offensive weapons.
5. Simple larceny.
6. Larceny of cattle.
7. Killing animals with intent to steal.
S. Larceny, etc., of dogs.
9. Larceny of wills.
10. Larceny of documents of title to land, etc.
11. Taking, destroying, etc., documents for a fraudulent purpose.
12. Damaging fixtures with intent to steal.
13. Praedial larceny.
14. Larceny of goods in process of manufxture.
15. Abstracting electricity.
16. Larceny, etc., of ore from mines, etc.
17. Larceny of postal articles.
18. Larceny in dwelling-houses.
19. Larceny from the person.
20. Larceny from ships, docks, etc.
2 1. Larceny by tenants or lodgers.
22. Larceny and embezzlement by clerks or servants.
23. Stealing or embezzlement by officer of Post Office.
24. Conversion.
25. Conversion by trustee.
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4.-(1) Every person who steals any cattle shall be guilty L,-,,yof
of felony, and on conviction thereof liable to imprisonment wt*tfle.
with hard labour for any term not exceeding seven years.
7. Every person who wi!fully kills any animal with intent Killing
to steal the carcase, skin, or any part, of the animal killed, animals
wifiintent
shall be guilty of felony, and on conviction thcreof liable tosteal.
to the same punishment as if he had stolen such animal, if
the offence of stealing the animal so killed would have
amounted to felony.
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shall be guilty of felony. and on conviction thereof shall be
liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.
Larceny of 9. Every person who steals the whole or any part of any
WillS.
will, codicil, or other testamentary instrument, either of a
dead or of a living person, shall be guilty of felony, and on
conviction thereof liable to imprisonment with hard labour
for any term not exceeding ten years.
Larceny of 10. Every person who steals the whole or any part of-
documents
of title to (a) any document of title to lands; or
Isnd. etc.
( b ) any record, writ, return, panel, petition, process,
interrogatory, deposition, asdavit, rule, order,
warrant of attorney, or any original document of
or belonging to any Court of Record, or relating
to any cause or matter, civil or criminal, begun,
depending, or terminated, in any such Court; or
(c) any original document relating to the business of
any office or employment under Her Majesty, and
being or remaining in any office appertaining to
any Court of Justice, or in any Government build-
ing or public office,
shall be guilty of felony, and on conviction thereof liable
10 imprisonment with hard labour for any term not exceed-
ing five years.
Taking, 11. Every person who, for any fraudulent purpose, takes
destroymg,
etc., docu- and carries away, destroys, damages, or obliterates, the
ments for a
fraudulent whole or any part of-
purpo= (a) any will, codicil, or other testamentary instrument,
either of a dead or living person;
( b ) any valuable security;
(c) any record, writ, return, panel, petition, process,
interrogatory, deposition, affidavit, rule, order,
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23. Every person who, being an officer of the Post Oflice ~ t e a ~ i norg
department or employed therein, steak or cmbezzles a postal crnbezrle-
n,cnI by
aticle in course of transmission by post, shall be guilty of ;
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felony, and on conviction thereof liable-
(a) if the postal article contains any chattel, money,
or valuable security, to imprisonment with hard
labour for any term not exceeding ten years;
( b ) in all other cases, to imprisonment with hard
labour for any term not exceeding seven years.
Houso 41. Every person who, with intent to commit any felony
breaking
with intent therein-
to commit
felony.
(a) enters any dwelling-house in the night; or
stealing
51. Every person who steals, or with intent to steal cuts, dC., fencer.
severs, roots up, or breaks, any part of any fence, whether dC
of the said things on the faith of any such statement for the
loss or damage he may have sustained by reason thereof:
Provided that no person shall be liable under this section
in respect of any untrue statement if he proves that he had
reasonable ground to believe, and did up to the time of
making the statement believe that the statement was true
and, in any case where after making the statement he
discovered that it was untrue, did not have any reasonable
opportunity of communicating that fact to the person
suffering the loss or damage.
(2) In this section-
(a) the word “statement” includes promise and fore-
cast; and
(b) a statement shall be deemed to be untrue if, in the
form and context in which it is made, it is mis-
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