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252. Kidnapping or abducting child with intent to steal A person who kidnaps or abducts any child under the age of fourteen years with the intention of taking dishonestly any movable property from the person of the child is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for seven years. 253. Punishment for wrongful confinement A person who wrongfully confines another person is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for one year or to a fine of three thousand shillings. 254. Buying or disposing of any person as a slave A person who imports, exports, removes, buys, sells or disposes of any person as a slave, or accepts, receives or detains against his will any person as a slave, is guilty of an offence, and is liable to imprisonment for seven years. 255. Habitual dealing in slaves A person who habitually imports, exports, removes, buys, sells, traffics or deals in slaves is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for ten years. 256. Unlawful compulsory labour Any person who unlawfully compels any other person to labour against the will of that person is guilty of an offence. Division V. – Offences Relating to Property (ss 257-318A) 257. Things capable of being stolen CHAPTER XXVII THEFT (ss 257-275) (1) Every inanimate thing which is the property of any person and which is movable, is capable of being stolen. (2) Every inanimate thing which is the property of any person and which is capable of being made movable is capable of being stolen as soon as it becomes movable, although it is made movable in order to steal it. (3) Every tame animal, whether tame by nature or wild by nature that tamed, which is the property of any person, is capable of being stolen. (4) Animals wild by nature, of a kind which is not ordinarily found in a condition of natural liberty in Mainland Tanzania, which are the property of any person and which are usually kept in a state of confinement, are capable of being stolen, whether they are actually in confinement or
have escaped from confinement. (5) Animals wild by nature, of a kind which is not ordinarily found in a condition of natural liberty in Mainland Tanzania which are the property of any person, are capable of being stolen while they are in confinement and while they are being actually pursued after escaping from confinement, but not at any other time. (6) An animal wild by nature is deemed to be in a state of confinement so long as it is in a den, cage, sty, tank or other small enclosure, or is otherwise so placed that it cannot escape, and that its owner can take possession of it at pleasure. (7) Wild animals in the enjoyment of their natural liberty are not capable of being stolen but their dead bodies are capable of being stolen. (8) Everything produced by or forming part of the body of an animal capable of being stolen is capable of being stolen. 258. Definition of theft (1) A person who fraudulently and without claim of right takes any thing capable of being stolen, or fraudulently converts to the use of any person other than the general or special owner thereof anything capable of being stolen, steals that thing. (2) A person who takes or converts anything capable of being stolen is deemed to do so fraudulently if he does so with any of the following intents, that is to say– (a) an intent permanently to deprive the general or special owner of the thing of it; (b) an intent to use the thing as a pledge or security; (c) an intent to part with it on a condition as to its return which the person taking or converting it may be unable to perform; (d) an intent to deal with it in such a manner that it cannot be returned in the condition in which it was at the time of the taking or conversion; or (e) in the case of money, an intent to use it at the will of the person who takes or converts it, although he may intend afterwards to repay the amount to the owner, and "special owner" means any person who has lawful possession or custody of, or any proprietary interest in, the thing in question. (3) When a thing stolen is converted, it is immaterial whether it is taken for the purposes of conversion or whether it is at the time of the conversion in the possession of the person who converts it or whether the person who converts the thing in question is the holder of a power of attorney for the disposition of it, or is otherwise authorised to dispose of it. (4) When a thing converted has been lost by the owner and found by the person who
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