A person who, without authority or contrary to law:
Penal Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation.
Article 158
Arbitrary Action · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
seizes, against the will of the possessor, any property or indebtedness (pledge) that person has handed over to the possessor, or which is the subject of legal proceedings; or
seizes any property belonging to his debtor in order to obtain a payment due to oneself,
is guilty of taking arbitrary action, 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.