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In this Code, unless the context requires otherwise– "court" means a court of competent jurisdiction; "dwelling house" includes any building or structure which is for the time being kept by the owner or occupier for the residence therein of himself, his family or servants or any of them, and it is immaterial that it is from time to time uninhabited; a building or structure adjacent to or occupied with a dwelling house is deemed to be part of the dwelling house if there is communication between that building or structure and the dwelling house, either immediate or by means of a covered and enclosed passage leading from the one to the other, but not otherwise; "harm" means any bodily hurt, disease or disorder whether permanent or temporary; "dangerous harm" means harm endangering life; "grievous harm" means any harm which amounts to a maim or dangerous harm, or seriously or permanently injures health or which is likely so to injure health, or which extends to permanent disfigurement, or to any permanent or serious injury to any external or internal organ, member or sense; "judicial proceeding" includes any proceeding had or taken in or before court, tribunal, commission or person in which or before whom evidence may be taken on oath; "knowingly" used in connection with any term denoting uttering or using, implies knowledge of the character of the thing uttered or used; "local government authority" means a local government authority established by law; "maim" means the destruction or permanent disabling of any external or internal organ, member or sense; "money" includes bank notes, currency notes, bank drafts, cheques and other orders, warrants or requests for the payment of money; "night" or "night-time" means the period between seven o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the morning; "offence" means an act, attempt or omission punishable by law; "person" and "owner" and other like terms when used with reference to property include corporations of all kinds and any other association of persons capable of owning property, and also when so used include the Government; "person employed in the public service" means any person holding any of the following offices or performing the duty thereof, whether as a deputy or not, namely–
(i) any public office of the President, and any office the power of appointing a person to which or of removing from which is vested in the President or in a commission or board to which the President has delegated his function of, or which is established by written law for the purpose of, making appointments to any office; (ii) any office to which a person is appointed or nominated under any law; (iii) any civil office, the power of appointing to which or removing from which is vested in any person or persons holding an office of any kind included in paragraph (i) or (ii); or (iv) any office of arbitrator or umpire in any proceeding or matter submitted to arbitration by order or with the sanction of any court, or in pursuance of any law; and also means– (i) a justice of the peace; (ii) a member of a commission of inquiry appointed under or in pursuance of any law; (iii) any person employed to execute any process of a court; (iv) a member of the Regular Force of the Defence Forces, a member of the National Service, and any other member of the Defence Forces when on duty; (v) a person in the employment of any government department; (vi) a person acting as a minister of religion of whatsoever denomination in so far as he performs functions in respect of the notification of intended marriage or in respect of the solemnisation of marriage, or in respect of the making or keeping of any register or certificate of marriage, birth, baptism, death or burial, but not in any other respect. (vii) a member of a local government authority (viii) a municipal councillor; (ix) a person in the employment of a local government authority; (x) any person employed by or in the service of any public corporation established under the Public Corporations Act *(3) or a corporation established by or under any written law other than the Companies Act *(4) or a company incorporated under the Companies Act which is wholly owned by the Government or which is a subsidiary of any public corporation. "possession", "be in possession of" or "have in possession" includes– (a) not only having in one's own personal possession, but also knowingly having anything
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shall be deemed to be an idle and d
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other person satisfies the court th
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more of the following circumstances
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or perform a duty, the period is re
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is guilty of an offence and liable
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that person; (c) shoots or throws a
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danger from any machinery of which
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consent of that person or of some p
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have escaped from confinement. (5)
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When a person receives, either alon
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(c) property which has been receive
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(1) Any person who, whether or not
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(2) If the offender is armed with a
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RECEIVING PROPERTY STOLEN OR UNLAWF
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property or converts it to any use
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which would render it incapable of
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323. Casting away vessels Any perso
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(e) any service relating to the sup
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(d) wilfully molests, hinders or ob
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document. CHAPTER XXXVII PUNISHMENT
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343. Uttering cancelled or exhauste
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353. Definitions In this Chapter- C
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offence. 361. Repeated uttering Any
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possession, shall be forfeited to t
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372. Lending, etc., certificate for
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say- (a) to prevent or defeat the e
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