Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Statutes and International Instruments -- List of Cases -- PART I - CRIMES AGAINST THE STATE -- Chapter 1. Offences against the Security of the State -- 1. Treasonable acts -- A. Treasonable offences punishable by death -- B. Wartime treasonable offences -- C. Peacetime treasonable offences -- D. Misprison of treason -- 2. Secession -- 3. Civil war -- 4. Revolution -- 5. Armed band -- Chapter 2. Offences against the Constitution -- 1. Electoral fraud -- 2. Electoral corruption and violence -- 3. Agreement to subvert the law, the operation of a public service, or state security -- 4. Trespass on the legislature -- 5. Trespass by executive and judiciary reciprocally -- 6. Trespass by judiciary on particular immunities -- 7. Unlawful use of force -- 8. Non-compliance with requisition -- Chapter 3. Misconduct in Public Office -- 1. Use of force by public servant -- 2. Corruption -- 1. Bribery -- 2. Corruption of employee -- 3. Interest in grant -- 4. Interest in concern -- 5. Indulgence -- 6. Undue demand -- 7. Compulsion of public servant -- 8. Procuring influence -- 3. Abuse of office -- 1. Oppression -- 2. Obstructing the exercise of civic rights -- 3. Favour -- 4. Forgery of official act -- 4. Culpable abstention -- 1. Failure to report deficiency -- 2. Negligent custody -- 3. Failure to suppress riot -- 4. Failure to protect private rights -- 5. Denial of justice -- 6. Refusal of service -- 7. Neglect of preliminaries to marriage -- 8. Entry of births, marriages and deaths elsewhere than in the prescribed register -- 9. Persistent neglect -- 5. Torture -- Chapter 4. Offences against Public Officials -- 1. Contempt -- 1.1 Contempt of President, Vice President or Foreign Sovereign -- 1.2. Contempt of Head of Government, Foreign Minister or Diplomatic Representative.

1.3. Contempt of constituent bodies and public servants -- 2. Assaulting a public servant -- 2.1. General considerations -- 2.2. Simple assault on a public servant -- 2.3. Aggravated assault on a public servant -- 3. Obstructing the execution of lawful duty -- 3.1. Simple resistance -- 3.2. Collective resistance -- 3.3. Political resistance -- 4. Offences of 'subversion' -- 4.1. Incitement to resist the application of laws -- 4.2. Contempt of or ridiculing any public authority -- 4.3. Inciting hatred against the government -- 4.4. Taking part in a subversive enterprise -- 4.5. Dissemination of false news -- 5. False statement, fraud at examinations -- 5.1. False statement misleading public servant -- 5.2. Fraud at examinations -- Chapter 5. Offences against Public Revenue, Property, etc -- 1. Offences against the public revenue -- 1.1. Misappropriation of public funds -- 1.2. Refusal of tax -- 2. Offences against government property -- 2.1. Damage to public or protected property -- 2.2. Removal, destruction of public record -- 2.3. Taking copy of any government document -- 3. Offences against the normal operation of public service -- 3.1. Disturbance -- 3.2. Resistance to the carrying out of authorized works -- 4. Offences against certain acts of public authority -- 4.1. Breach of seals -- 4.2. Defacement of posters -- 4.3. Innkeeper's register -- 4.4. Illicit burial -- Chapter 6. Offences against the Administration of Justice -- 1. Perversion of justice -- 1.1. Perjury and cognate offences -- 1.2. False expert report -- 1.3. False oath -- 1.4. Concealment of proceeding -- 1.5. Concealment and fabrication of evidence -- 1.6. Prejudicial comment -- 2. Refusal to assist justice -- 2.1. Non-intervention -- 2.2. Refusal to clear -- 2.3. Defaulting witness -- 2.4. Defaulting expert -- 2.5. Defaulting juror or assessor -- 2.6. False excuse.

3. Disobedience to judicial orders -- 3.1. Banned residence -- 3.2. Wilful insolvency -- 3.3. Re-entry on immovable property -- 3.4. Non-payment of court-ordered maintenance -- 3.5. Failure to surrender a minor to the person granted custody -- 4. Defeating the course of justice -- 4.1. Misappropriation of attached property -- 4.2. Facilitating a detainee's relations with an outside party -- 4.3. Escape from lawful custody -- 4.4. Accessory after the fact by shelter -- 4.5. Public invitation for contributions to pay off a court fine -- 4.6. Defacement of copy of judgment posted on a notice board -- 4.7. Revenge on witness -- 4.8. Forbidden publications -- Chapter 7. Offences against State Guarantees -- 1. Forgery crimes -- 1.1. Forging the Great Seal -- 1.2. Forging treasury security -- 1.3. Forging certain signatures, stamps and punches -- 1.4. Forging marks and stationery -- 1.5. Forging postage and revenue stamps, and related offences -- 1.6. Forging a public act, document or record -- 1.7. Forging licences and similar documents -- 1.8. Forging official certificates -- 1.9. Colourable resemblance -- 2. Counterfeiting and related offences -- 2.1. Counterfeiting note and coin -- 2.2. Manufacture or possession of counterfeiting equipment -- 2.3. Improper possession of certain things -- 3. Usurpation -- 3.1. Unauthorized striking money -- 3.2. Unlawful assumption of an office -- 3.3. Irregular solemnization of marriage -- 3.4. Use of any uniform or decoration not entitled to -- 3.5. Use of any qualification not entitled to -- 3.6. Use of any title of honour not entitled to -- 4. Offences affecting guarantees to the national economy -- 4.1. Injury to the credit of the state -- 4.2. Refusal of note or coin that is legal tender -- 4.3. Injury to national development -- 4.4. Misappropriation of loans and subsidies.

4.5. Infringement of regulations governing standards -- PART II - CRIMES AGAINST THE GENERAL INTEREST -- Chapter 8. Offences Relating to Public Safety -- 1. Arson -- 2. Destruction of dwelling, vehicle or mine -- 3. Dangerous activities -- (i) Failure to provide against risk of bodily harm -- (ii) Rashly making use of fire, etc. -- iii) Rashly demolishing any construction or building -- (iv) Rashly furnishing medical treatment -- (v) Rash driving -- 4. Drink- or drug-driving -- 5. Infringement of regulation governing explosives -- 6. Obstructing the use of public highway -- 7. Non-repair of highway -- Chapter 9. Offences Relating to Public Peace -- 1. Unlawful assembly -- 2. Riot -- 3. Seditious cries -- 4. Depredation by band -- 5. Arms and ammunition offences -- 5.1. Possession of arms -- 5.2. Dangerous carriage of arms -- 6. Disturbance of quiet enjoyment of land -- 7. False news -- 8. Contempt of race or religion -- 9. Discrimination -- 10. Public drunkenness -- 11. Vagrancy offences -- 11.1. Begging -- 11.2. Vagabondage -- 11.3. Dangerous preparations -- 12. Gaming and lotteries -- 13. Keeping unlicensed pawnshop -- 14. Witchcraft -- Chapter 10. Offences Relating to the Public Economy -- 1. Keeping false weights and measures -- 2. Bad cheques -- 3. Interference with auctions or tenders -- 4. Interference with labour -- 5. Rigging prices -- 6. Destruction of foodstuffs -- Chapter 11. Offences Relating to Public Health -- 1. Adulteration of foodstuffs etc. -- 2. Issuing false medical certificates -- 3. Facilitating the communication of infectious disease -- 4. Pollution of air and water -- 5. Breach of contract in essential services -- Chapter 12. Offences against Public Decency and Sensibilities -- 1. Safeguarding public decency -- 1.1 Public indecency -- 1.2 Corruption of morals -- 1.3. Obscene publications.

1.4. Other objectionable publications -- 1.5. Justification of crime -- 2. Safeguarding public sensibilities -- 2.1. Desecration of graves and corpses -- 2.2. Disturbance of funeral -- 2.3. Cruelty to animals -- Chapter 13. Offences Relating to Public Worship -- 1. Protection of public religious practice -- 1.1. Forcing or preventing the practice of a religion -- 1.2. Disturbance of public worship -- 2. Protection of minister of religion -- 2.1. Contempt of minister of religion -- 2.2. Violent obstruction of ministry -- PART III - CRIMES AGAINST PRIVATE INTEREST -- Chapter 14. Offences against Bodily Integrity: Non-Fatal Assaults -- 1. Types of Non-fatal assaults -- 2. Threats -- 3. Harm: minor, simple, and slight -- 4. Desertion of incapable -- 5. Failure to render assistance to a person in danger -- 6. Grievous harm -- 7. Deliberate communication of HIV -- 8. Justification of the use of force -- Chapter 15. Offences against Bodily Integrity: Fatal Assaults -- 1. Unlawful homicide -- 1.1 Intentional killing -- 1.1.1 Murder simpliciter -- 1.1.2 Capital murder -- 1.1.3 Other categories of murder -- 1.2. Unintentional killing: Negligent or Reckless Killing -- 1.2.1 Cases of intentional conduct resulting in unintended death -- 1.2.2 Cases of reckless conduct resulting in unintended death -- 2. Lawful Homicide -- 2.1. Justifiable homicide -- 2.2. Excusable homicide -- 2.3. Difference in legal consequence between justifiable and excusable homicide -- 3. Causation in the law of homicide -- Chapter 16. Offences against Personal Tranquility -- 1. Violations of certain individual rights -- 1.1 False arrest -- 1.2 Forced labour -- 1.3 Invasion of residence -- 1.4 Tampering with correspondence -- 2. Injury to honour and reputation -- 2.1. False report -- 2.2. Defamation -- 2.3. Abuse -- Chapter 17. Offences against Private Property: Stealing.

1. Theft: stealing by trespassory asportation.