Section 255 of Penal Code CAP 63: Definition of kidnapping from lawful guardianship
Any person who takes or entices any minor under fourteen years of age if a male, or under sixteen years of age if a female, or any person of unsound mind, out of the keeping of a lawful guardian of the minor or person of unsound mind, without the consent of the guardian, is said to kidnap the minor or person from lawful guardianship.
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- Section 257 - Punishment for kidnapping
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- Section 258 - Kidnapping or abducting in order to murder
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- Section 259 - Kidnapping or abducting with intent to confine
Any person who kidnaps or abducts any person with intent to cause that person to be secretly and wrongfully confined is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
- Section 260 - Kidnapping or abducting in order to subject to grievous harm, slavery, etc.
Any person who kidnaps or abducts any person in order that the person may be subjected, or may be so disposed of as to be put in danger of being subjected to grievous harm, or knowing it to be likely...
- Section 261 - Wrongfully concealing or keeping in confinement kidnapped or abducted person
Any person who, knowing that any person has been kidnapped or has been abducted, wrongfully conceals or confines such person is guilty of a felony and shall be punished in the same manner as if he had...
- Section 262 - Kidnapping or abducting child under fourteen years with intent to steal from its person
Any 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 such child is guilty of a felony and is...
- Section 263 - Punishment for wrongful confinement
Whoever wrongfully confines any person is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for one year or to a fine of fourteen thousand shillings.
- Section 266 - Unlawful compulsory labour
Any person who unlawfully compels any person to labour against the will of that person is guilty of a misdemeanour.
- Section 266A - Offences Under Part
Where it appears that any of the offences specified under this Part is committed for the purpose of exploitation, the person committing the offence shall be charged with the appropriate offence as...
- Section 267 - Things capable of being stolen
(1) Every inanimate thing whatever 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...
- Section 268 - Definition of stealing
(1) A person who fraudulently and without claim of right takes anything capable of being stolen, or fraudulently converts to the use of any person, other than the general or special owner thereof, any...
- Section 269 - Special cases
(1) When a factor or agent pledges or gives a lien on any goods or document of title to goods entrusted to him for the purpose of sale or otherwise for any sum of money not greater than the amount due...
- Section 270 - Funds, etc., held under direction
When a person receives, either alone or jointly with another person, any money or valuable security or a power of attorney for the sale, mortgage, pledge or other disposition of any property, whether...
- Section 271 - Funds, etc., received by agents for sale
When a person receives, either alone or jointly with another person, any property from another on terms authorizing or requiring him to sell it or otherwise dispose of it, and requiring him to pay or...
- Section 272 - Money received for another
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- Section 273 - Theft by person having an interest in the thing stolen
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- Section 274 - Husband and wife
A person who, while a man and his wife are living together, procures either of them to deal with anything which is, to his knowledge, the property of the other in a manner which would be theft if they...
- Section 275 - General punishment for theft
Any person who steals anything capable of being stolen is guilty of the felony termed theft and is liable, unless owing to the circumstances of the theft or the nature of the thing stolen some other...
- Section 276 - Stealing wills
If the thing stolen is a testamentary instrument, whether the testator is living or dead, the offender is liable to imprisonment for ten years.
- Section 277 - Stealing postal matter, etc.
If the thing stolen is postal matter or any chattel, money or valuable security contained in any postal matter, the offender is liable to imprisonment for ten years.
- Section 278 - Stealing stock
If the thing stolen is any of the following things, that is to say, a horse, mare, gelding, ass, mule, camel, ostrich, bull, cow, ox, ram, ewe, wether, goat or pig, or the young thereof the offender...
- Section 278A - Stealing motor vehicle
If the thing stolen is a motor vehicle within the meaning of the Traffic Act (Cap.
403), the offender is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
- Section 278B - Stealing fishing gear
If the thing stolen is fishing gear within the meaning of the Fisheries Act, 1988 (Cap. 378), the offender is liable to imprisonment for five years.
- Section 279 - Stealing from the person; stealing goods in transit, etc.
If the theft is committed under any of the circumstances following, that is to say—
(a) if the thing is stolen from the person of another;
(b) if the thing is stolen in a dwelling-house, and its...
- Section 280 - Stealing by persons in the public service
If the offender is a person employed in the public service and the thing stolen is the property of the Government, or came into the possession of the offender by virtue of his employment, he is liable...
- Section 281 - Stealing by clerks and servants
If the offender is a clerk or servant, and the thing stolen is the property of his employer, or came into the possession of the offender on account of his employer, he is liable to imprisonment for...
- Section 282 - Stealing by directors or officers of companies
If the offender is a director or officer of a corporation or company, and the thing stolen is the property of the corporation or company, he is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
- Section 283 - Stealing by agents, etc.
If the thing stolen is any of the things following, that is to say—
(a) property which has been received by the offender with a power of attorney for the disposition thereof;
(b) property which...
- Section 284 - Stealing by tenants or lodgers
If the thing stolen is a fixture or chattel let to the offender to be used by him with a house or lodging, and its value exceeds one hundred shillings, he is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
- Section 285 - Stealing after previous conviction
If the offender, before committing the theft, had been convicted of a theft punishable under any of sections 275 to 284 inclusive, he is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
- Section 286 - Concealing registers
Any person who, with intent to defraud, conceals or takes from its place of deposit any register which is authorized or required by law to be kept for authenticating or recording the title to any...
- Section 287 - Concealing wills
Any person who, with intent to defraud, conceals any testamentary instrument, whether the testator is living or dead is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
- Section 288 - Concealing deeds
Any person who, with intent to defraud, conceals the whole or part of any document which is evidence of title to any land or estate in land, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for...
- Section 289 - Killing animals with intent to steal
Any person who kills any animal capable of being stolen with intent to steal the skin or carcass, or any part of the skin or carcass, is guilty of an offence and is liable to the same punishment as if...
- Section 290 - Severing with intent to steal
Any person who makes anything movable with intent to steal it is guilty of an offence and is liable to the same punishment as if he had stolen the thing after it had become movable.
- Section 291 - Fraudulent disposition of mortgaged goods
(1) Any person who, being the mortgagor of mortgaged goods, removes or disposes of the goods without the consent of the mortgagee, and with intent to defraud, is guilty of a misdemeanour.
(2) In...
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- Section 293 - Fraudulent appropriation of power
Any person who fraudulently abstracts or diverts to his own use or to the use of any other person any mechanical, illuminating or electrical power derived from any machine, apparatus or substance, the...
- Section 294 - Unlawful use of vehicles, animals, etc.
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- Section 295 - Definition of robbery
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- Section 296 - Punishment of robbery
(1) Any person who commits the felony of robbery is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
(2) If the offender is armed with any dangerous or offensive weapon or instrument, or is in company...
- Section 297 - Attempted robbery
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- Section 298 - Assault with intent to steal
Any person who assaults any person with intent to steal anything is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years.
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- Section 300 - Attempts at extortion by threats
(1) Any person who, with intent to extort or gain anything from any person—
(a) accuses or threatens to accuse any person of committing any felony or misdemeanour, or of offering or making any...
- Section 301 - Procuring execution of deeds, etc., by threats
Any person who, with intent to defraud, and by means of any unlawful violence to, or restraint of, the person of another, or by means of any threat of violence or restraint to be used to the person of...
- Section 302 - Demanding property with menaces
Any person who, with intent to steal any valuable thing, demands it from any person with menaces or force is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for ten years.
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- Section 304 - Housebreaking and burglary
(1) Any person who—
(a) breaks and enters any building, tent or vessel used as a human dwelling with intent to commit a felony therein; or
(b) having entered any building, tent or vessel used as a...