The Criminal Code Act 1899 - Ozcase Queensland Historical Legal ...

168 SS. 515-5119 CKIMINAL CODE
If the representation is that the offender is a person entitled by will
or operation of law to any specific property, and he commits the offence
with intent to obtain such property or possession thereof, he is guilty
of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for fourteen
years.
5115, ~ ~ a ~ § ~ ~ e y ~ ~ ~ etc. ~ Any i person ~ who, ~ ~ ~ ~ §
without lawful authority or excuse, the proof of which lies on him, makes,
in the name of any other person, before any court or person lawfully
authorized to take such an acknowledgment, an acknowledgment of
liability of any kind, or an acknowledgment of a deed or other instrument,
is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for
seven years.
de. Any person who
utters any document whicb has been issued by lawhl authority to another
person, and whereby that other person is certified to be a person possessed
of any qualification recognized by law for any purpose, or to be the
holder of any office, or to be entitled to exercise any profession, trade, or
business, or to be entitled to any right or privilege; QP to enjoy any
rank or status, and falsely represents himself to be the person named in
the document, is guilty of an offence of the same kind, and is liable to
the same pu~shment as if he had forged the document.
~~~~~~~~~n~ Any person who, being a
person to whom any document has been issued by lawful authority,
whereby he is certified to be a person possessed of any qualification
recognised by law for any purpose, or to be the holder of any office,
or to be entitled to exercise any profession, trade, or business, or to be
entitled to any right or privilege, or to enjoy any rank or status, lends the
document to another person with intent that that other may represent
himself to be the person named therein, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and
is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for three years.
DIVISION IV4FFENCES CONNECTED WITH TRADE AND
BREACH OF CONTRACT
CHAPTER LIII-FRAUDULENT DEBTORS
ittion. In this Chapter the term “an insolvent” means a person
with respect to whom any proceedings have been taken under the
provisions of the laws relating to insolvent debtors which result in his
affairs being administered under the provisions of those laws for the
benefit of his creditors.
Such a pcrson is deemed to have been an insolvent from the time
when the proceedings were taken, whether that result had or had not
happened when the unlawful act in question was done.
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~ n ~ ~ Any ~ person ~ e who- ~ ~ y .
(1 ) Being an insolvent, departs from Queensland and takes with
him, or attempts or prepares to depart from Queensland and
to take with him, any part of his property to the amount of
forty dollars, which ought by law to be divided amongst
his creditors; or