Demanding with intent to steal

Question 1

Section

Answer 1

239

Question 2

Penalty?

Answer 2

239(1) 14 years imprisonment

239(2) 7 years impronsment

Question 3

Ingredients 14 year offence

Answer 3

Every one who, without claim of right, by force or with any threat, compels any person to execute, make, accept, endorse, alter, or destroy any document capable of conferring a pecuniary advantage with intent to obtain any benefit.

Question 4

Ingredients 7 year offence

Answer 4

Every one who, with menaces or by any threat, demands any property from any persons with intent to steal it.

Question 5

Difference between demanding with intent to steal and robbery

Answer 5

The conduct required in demanding with intent to steal does not make it robbery as no property is taken or dealt with.

Question 6

Define execute

Answer 6

to do what the law requires to give validity to a document, It is not confined to the signing or doing something to the face of a document

Question 7

What else may constituent execution

Answer 7

Entry of data into a computer system

Question 8

Define document

Answer 8

a thing which provides evidence or information or serves a record

Question 9

Define demand

Answer 9

It is sufficient if there is a clear request made firmly.

Question 10

Define menaces o any threat

Answer 10

There is no clear difference between the two.

Question 11

What is sufficient to constitute menaces or any threat

Answer 11

If the defendants conduct conveys a threat of something detrimental or unpleasant happening to the person whom the threat is made against.

Question 12

What is the difference between Blackmail and Demaning with intent to steal

Answer 12

The word any in any threat has its normal meaning so the threats are not restricted to those outlined in blackmail

Question 13

Who must the demand be made to

Answer 13

It is not necessary that the demand be made directly to the person who it is directed at.