Criminal Law Code as at 1st March 2007 (a) includes⎯ (i) money, whether in the form of cash, specific notes or coins, an entry in an account or other abstract sum of money or claim to be paid an amount of money; and (ii) shares in any business undertaking; (iii) the following incorporeal things in so far as they may be illegally tapped or diverted from their intended destination⎯ A. electricity; and B. electromagnetic waves emitted by a telecommunications or broadcasting system; (b) does not include any of the following things⎯ (i) property that is common to everyone, such as water in a public stream or air in the atmosphere; (ii) wild animals, birds, insects and fish that have not been reduced to captivity; (iii) eggs, honey and other produce of wild animals, birds, insects and fish, which has not been taken into possession by anyone; (iv) property that has been finally and absolutely abandoned by its owner, that is, thrown away or otherwise disposed of by the owner with the intention of relinquishing all his or her rights to it; “steal” means to commit theft or stock theft, as the case may be; “take”, in relation to property capable of being stolen, means⎯ (a) taking possession or control of a movable corporeal thing or object; (b) being in possession of a movable corporeal thing or object and assuming the rights of an owner in respect of it; (c) in relation to any incorporeal right vested in a person, exercising or assuming title to the right concerned; “trust property” means property held, whether under a deed of trust or by agreement or under any enactment, on terms requiring the holder to do any or all of the following⎯ (a) hold the property on behalf of another person or account for it to another person; or (b) hand the property over to a specific person; or (c) deal with the property in a particular way; but does not include property received on terms expressly or impliedly stipulating that⎯ (i) the recipient is entitled to use the property as his or her own; and (ii) there would only be a debtor and creditor relationship between the parties; “violence” means the direct or indirect application of force to a person’s body. - 68 -

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