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Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) - Movable property
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC)
Movable property
The words
"movable property" are intended to include corporeal property of every
description, except land and thing attached to the earth, or permanently fastened
to anything which is attached to the earth.
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) - A Municipal Commissioner is a public servant
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC)
Illustration
A Municipal Commissioner is a public servant
Explanation 1 :
Persons falling under any of the above descriptions are public servants, whether appointed by
the Government or not.
Explanation 2:
Wherever the words "public servant” occur, they shall be understood of every person who is in
actual possession of the situation of a public servant, whatever legal defect there may
be in his right to hold that situation.
Explanation 3: The
word "election" denotes an election for the purpose of selecting
members of any
legislative, municipal or other public authority, of whatever character, the method of selection to
which is by, or under, any law prescribed as by election.
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) - "Public servant
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC)
"Public servant
The words "public
servant" denotes a person falling under any of the descriptions herein
after following, namely. First: [Omitted by the Federal Laws (Revision and
Declaration) Ordinance, XXV// of 1981].
Second: Every
Commissioned Officer in the Military, Naval or Air Forces of Pakistan while serving under the
Federal Government or any Provincial Government;
Third: Every Judge;
Fourth: Every officer
of a Court of Justice whose duty it is, as such officer, to investigate or report on any matter
of law or fact, or to make, authenticate, or keep any document, or to take charge or dispose
of any property, or to execute any judicial process, or to administer any oath, or to
interpret, or to preserve order in the Court; and every person specially authorized by a Court
of Justice to perform any of such duties; Fifth: Every juryman,
assessor, or member of a panchayat assisting a Court of Justice or public servant;
Sixth: Every
arbitrator or other person to whom any cause or matter has been referred for decision or report by
any Court of Justice, or by any other competent public authority;
Seventh ; Every person
who holds any office by virtue of which he is empowered to place or keep any person in
confinement;
Eighth: Every officer
of the Government whose duty it is, as such officer, to prevent
offences, to give
information of offences, to bring offenders to justice, or to protect the
public health, safety
or convenience;
Ninth: Every officer
whose duty it is, as such officer, to take, receive, keep or expend any property on behalf of
the Government, or to make any survey, assessment or contract on behalf of the
Government, or to execute any revenue process, or to investigate, or to report, or any matter
affecting the pecuniary interests of the Government, or to make/ authenticate or keep
any document relating to the pecuniary interests of the Government, or to prevent the
infraction of any law for the protection of the pecuniary interests of the Government, and every
officer in the service or. pay of the Government or remunerated by fees or commission for
the performance of any public duty;
Tenth : Every officer
whose duty it is, as such officer, to take, receive, keep or expend any property, to make any
survey or assessment or to levy any rate or tax for any secular common purpose of any
village, town or district, or to make, authenticate or keep any document for the
ascertaining of the rights of the people of any village, town or district.
Eleventh : Every
person who holds any office in virtue of which he is empowered to
prepare, publish,
maintain or revise an electoral roll or to conduct an election or part of an elections.
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) - Court of Justice
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC)
Court of Justice
The words "Court
of Justice denote a Judge who is empowered by law to act judicially alone, or a
body of Judges which is empowered by law to act judicially as a body, when such
Judge or body of Judges is acting judicially.
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) - Illustrations
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC)
Illustrations
(a) [Omitted by the
Federal Laws (Revision & Declaration Ordinance, XXV// of 1981].
(b) A Magistrate
exercising jurisdiction in. respect of a charge on which he has power tosentence to fine or
imprisonment with or without appeal, is a Judge.
(c) [Rep. by the
Federal Laws (Revision and Declaration) Act 1951 (26 of 1951), Section 3 and 11, Schedule].
(d) [Omitted by the
Federal Laws (Revision & Declaration Ordinance, XXVII of 1981],
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) - Judge
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC)
Judge
The word
"Judge" denotes not only every person who is officially designated as
a Judge, but also every person," Who is empowered by law to give, in any
legal proceeding, civil or criminal, a definitive judgment or a judgment which,
if not appealed against, would be definitive, or a judgment which, if confirmed
by some other authority, would be definitive, or Who is one of a body of
persons, which body of persons is empowered by law to give such Judgment.
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) - "Government"
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC)
"Government"
The word
"Government" denotes the person or persons authorized by law to
administer executive Government in Pakistan, or in any part thereof.
18. Definition of
Presidency: [Rep. by AO., 1937].
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) - Servant of the State
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC)
Servant of the State
The words
"servant of the State" denote all officers or servants
continued/appointed or employed in Pakistan, by or under the authority of the- Federal
Government or any Provincial Government.
15. Definition of
British-India '.[Rep. byA.0., 1937].
16. Definition of
"Government of India": [Rep. by AO. 1937].
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) - "Public"
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC)
"Public"
The word "Public" includes any class of the public or
any community.
13. Definition of "Queen": [Omitted by A. 0., 1961,
Art. 2 and Sched. (w.e.f. the 23rd
March, 1965).
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) - "Person"
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC)
"Person"
The word "person" includes any Company or Association,
or body of persons, whether incorporated or not.
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) - "Man" & "Woman
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC)
"Man"; "Woman
The word "man" denotes a male human being of any age;
the words "woman" denotes a female human being of any age.
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) - Number
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC)
Number
Unless the contrary appears from the context, words importing
the singular number include the plural number, and words importing the plural
number include the singular number.
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) - Gender
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC)
Gender
The pronoun "he" and its derivatives are used of any
person, whether male or female.
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) - Illustrations
Pakistan Penal Code (PPC)
Illustrations
(a) The section in
this Code, which contain definitions of offences, , do not express that a child under seven
years of age cannot commit such offence; but the definitions are to be understood subject to
the general exception which provides that nothing shall be an offence which is done
by a child under seven years of age.
(b) A, a police
officer, without warrant, apprehends Z who has committed murder. Here A is not guilty of the
offence of wrongful confinement; for he was bound by law to apprehend Z, and, therefore, the
case falls within the genera) exception ' which provides that "nothing is an offence which is
done by a person who is bound by law to do it."
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