Title V. Penal Code
Chapter 5. Crimes.
§ 500. Definitions.
1. "Person" means any sentient being from fertilisation to death.
2. "Bodily harm" means physical pain, illness or any impairment of physical condition.
3. "Serious bodily harm" means bodily harm which creates a substantial risk of death or which causes serious, permanent disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ.
4. "Death" means the bodily condition of showing no response to external stimuli, no spontaneous movements, no breathing, no reflexes, and no electrical activity in the brain.
5. "Deprived" means to cause a loss of
property or its value to the plaintiff without the plaintiff's consent by:
a.
obtaining goods or services and failing to pay for such goods or services; or
b.
destroying goods or services belonging to the plaintiff; or
c.
creating, altering, or executing any false document or other false thing; or
d.
destroying, removing, or concealing any document; or
e.
presenting a note or cheque for the payment of money knowing it will not be honoured by
the drawee; or
f.
obtaining property through use of a revoked or cancelled instrument of credit or an
instrument of credit belonging to the plaintiff; or
g.
using a false weight or measure; or
h. as
a seller, delivering less than the quantity represented by the weight or measure; or
i. as
a buyer, furnishing the weight or measure and taking more than the quantity represented by
such weight or measure; or
j.
selling or offering for sale goods or services varying from their labels more than a
variance set by established commercial usage and generally known to the public; or
k.
makes a false or misleading statement in any advertisement for the promotion of the sale
of goods or services; or
l.
makes a false or misleading statement for the intent of obtaining property; or
m.
failing to take reasonable steps to find the owner of property known to have been lost,
mislaid, or delivered by mistake; or
n.
preventing a contest or exhibition from being conducted according to the rules governing
it; or
o.
falsely asserting authority to cause the loss of property or its value; or
p. as
a financial institution, having an amount of latinum in reserve less than the total of all
deposits available for immediate withdrawal plus all outstanding loans; or
q. as
a person holding a life estate, causing a substantial loss of value in the property given
to the person owning a remainder.
6. "Obtain" means:
a. in
relation to property, to have possession of or to bring about a transfer or purported
transfer of a legal interest in the property, whether to the obtainer or another; or
b. in
relation to labour or service, to secure performance thereof.
7. "Property" means anything of value, including real estate, tangible and intangible personal property, contract rights, interests in or claims to wealth, admission or transportation tickets, captured or domestic animals, food and drink, electric or other power, or labour or services.
8. "Property of another" includes property in which both the defendant and one or more other people have a present or future interest, unless the other interest is only a security interest and the defendant has present possession.
9. "Chattel" means anything of value excluding real estate.
10. "Chattel of another" includes chattels in which both the defendant and one or more other people have a present or future interest, unless the other interest is only a security interest and the defendant has present possession.
11. "Statement" means any representation either written or oral, but includes a representation of opinion, belief or other state of mind only if the representation clearly relates to state of mind apart from or in addition to any facts which are the subject of the representation.