{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:346","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Misappropriation of Property of another","number":"346","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/346/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK IV — OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 1. — Offences against Property by Theft, Burglary and Robbery and Related Crimes"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"A person who with intent to obtain, or to procure for a third person, an unjustified enrichment, appropriates:","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/346/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":247,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/247/?article=346&paragraph=p1#article-346-p1"}]},{"id":"p1a","number":"a","parentId":"p1","text":"the property of another that has come into his possession by mistake, accident, the operation of natural forces such as wind or water, or in any other manner independently of the will of the owner; or","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/346/#p1a","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":247,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/247/?article=346&paragraph=p1a#article-346-p1a"}]},{"id":"p1b","number":"b","parentId":"p1","text":"an animal that is the property of another, which has strayed into his possession,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/346/#p1b","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":247,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/247/?article=346&paragraph=p1b#article-346-p1b"}]},{"id":"p1-tail","number":"","parentId":"p1","text":"is guilty of misappropriation, a Class 3 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not more than 1 month, or a fine of 500 – 5,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 500 Nakfas.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/346/#p1-tail","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":247,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/247/?article=346&paragraph=p1-tail#article-346-p1-tail"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Misappropriation may only be prosecuted upon the preferring of charges by the victim.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/346/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":247,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/247/?article=346&paragraph=p2#article-346-p2"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}