which is or is proposed to be put on the register, acting either as principal or agent, knowingly and with intent to deceive, makes or assists or joins in, or is privy to the making of, any material false statement or representation, or suppresses, conceals, assists or joins in, or is privy to the suppression, withholding or concealing from any judge or registrar, or any person employed by or assisting the registrar, any material document, fact or matter of information.

ARTICLE 457.

FRAUDS IN RESPECT TO THE REGISTRATION OF TITLES TO

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LAND IN THE TERRITORIES.

Every one is guilty of a misdemeanor, and liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labor, for any term less than two years, who

(a.) wilfully makes any false statement or declaration in any dealing in land under The Territories Real Property Act; or

(b.) suppresses or conceals, or assists or joins in, or is privy to the suppressing, withholding or concealing, from the registrar, court or judge, or either of them, any material document, fact or matter of information; or

(c.) wilfully makes any false statement in any declaration required under the authority of or made in pursuance of the said Act; or

(d.) fraudulently procures or is privy to the fraudulent procurement of any certificate of title or instrument, or of any entry in the register; or

(e.) knowingly misleads or deceives the court, the judge, the registrar, or any person by the said Act authorized to require explanation or information in

1 R. S. C. c. 51, s. 139. The offence is triable before a judge of the Supreme Court of the North-West Territories, or a stipendiary magistrate, without a jury.

respect to any land or the title to any land under the said Act, or in respect to which any dealing or transmission is proposed to be registered; or

(f) is a party to or privy to any fraudulent act whatever in any matter connected with the working of the said Act.

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ARTICLE 458.

FRAUDULENT SALES OF PROPERTY IN QUEBEC.

Every one is guilty of a misdemeanor, and liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and to one year's imprisonment, who, in the Province of Quebec, knowing the existence of any unregistered prior sale, grant, mortgage, hypothec, privilege or incumbrance, of or upon any real property, fraudulently makes any subsequent sale of the same, or of any part thereof.

FRAUDULENT

ARTICLE 459.

HYPOTHECATION OF REAL PROPERTY IN

QUEBEC.

Every one who, in the Province of Quebec, pretends to hypothecate any real property to which he has no legal title, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and to one year's imprisonment.

The proof of the ownership of the real estate rests with the person so pretending to hypothecate the same.

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ARTICLE 460.

FRAUDULENT SEIZURES OF LANDS IN QUEBEC.

Every one is guilty of a misdemeanor, and liable to one year's imprisonment, who, in the Province of Quebec, knowingly, wilfully and maliciously causes or procures

1 R. S. C. c. 164, ss. 92, 93.

2 R. S. C. c. 164, ss. 92, 94.

R. S. C. c. 164, ss. 92, 95.

to be seized and taken in execution, any lands and tenements, or other real property, situate within any township in the Province of Quebec, not being, at the time of such seizure, the bona fide property of the person or persons against whom, or whose estate, the execution is issued, knowing the same not to be the property of the person or persons against whom the execution is issued.

ARTICLE 461.

UNLAWFULLY APPLYING MARKS TO PUBLIC STORES.

Every one is guilty of a misdemeanor, and liable to imprisonment for any term less than two years, who, without lawful authority, the proof of which shall lie on him, applies any of the 'marks mentioned in the note hereto in or on any public stores.3

150 and 51 Vict. (D.) c. 45, s. 4; 38 and 39 Vict. c. 25, s. 4.

The marks described by the following schedule may be applied by any public department, and the contractors, officers and workmen of such department in or on any public stores to denote Her Majesty's property in such stores.

SCHEDULE.

Marks appropriated for Her Majesty's use in or on Naval, Military, Ordnance, Barrack, Hospital and Victualling Stores.

ters W.D.

Timber, metal and other stores not before The broad arrow, with or without the letenumerated.

Marks appropriated for use on stores, the property of Her Majesty in the right of Her Government of Canada.

STORES.

Public Stores.

MARKS.

The name of any public department, or the word "Canada," either alone or in combination with a Crown or the Royal Arms.

In this and the five Articles next following, the expression "stores" includes all goods and chattels and any single store or article; and the expression "public stores" includes all stores under the care, superintendence or control of the Admiralty, of the

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1 ARTICLE 462.

TAKING MARKS FROM PUBLIC STORES.

Every one is guilty of felony, and liable to imprisonment for any term less than two years, who, with intent to conceal Her Majesty's property in any public stores, takes out, destroys or obliterates, wholly or in part, any of the marks mentioned in note () to the Article next preceding.

ARTICLE 463.

UNLAWFUL POSSESSION, SALE, ETC., OF PUBLIC STORES.

3 Every one who, without lawful authority, the proof of which lies on him, receives, possesses, keeps, sells or delivers any public stores bearing any such mark as aforesaid, knowing them to bear such mark, is guilty of a misdemeanor and liable, on conviction on indictment, to one year's imprisonment, and if the value thereof does not exceed twenty-five dollars, on summary conviction before two justices of the peace to a fine of one hundred dollars or to six months' imprisonment with or without hard labor.

ARTICLE 464.

PRESUMPTION WHERE OFFENDER IS IN HER MAJESTY'S
SERVICE, OR A DEALER IN MARINE STORES,
OR OLD METALS.

If the person charged with such a misdemeanor as last aforesaid was, at the time at which the offence is

War Department, or of any public department or office of the Government of Canada, or of the public or civil service thereof, or of any branch of such department or office; 50 and 51 Vict. (D.), c. 45, s. 2 (c), (d).

1S. D. Art., 341.

250 and 51 Vict. (D.) c. 45, s. 5; 38 and 39 Vict. c. 25, s. 5.

3 50 & 51 Vict. (D.) c. 45, ss. 6, 8; 30 & 31 Vict. c. 119, ss. 7, 9.

450 & 51 Vict. (D.) c. 45, s. 7; 30 & 31 Vict. c. 119, s. 8.

charged to have been committed, in Her Majesty's service or employment, or a dealer in marine stores, or a dealer in old metals, knowledge on his part that the stores to which the charge relates bore such mark as aforesaid, shall be presumed until the contrary is shown.

ARTICLE 465.

NOT SATISFYING JUSTICES THAT POSSESSION OF PUBLIC STORES IS LAWFUL.

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Every one, not being in Her Majesty's service, or a dealer in marine stores or a dealer in old metals, in whose possession any public stores bearing any such mark are found, who, when taken or summoned before two justices of the peace, does not satisfy such justices that he came lawfully by such stores so found, is liable, on summary conviction, to a fine of twenty-five dollars; and

If any such person satisfies such justices that he came lawfully by the stores so found, the justices, in their discretion, as the evidence given or the circumstances of the case require, may summon before them every person through whose hands such stores appear to have passed; and

Every one who has had possession thereof, who does not satisfy such justices that he came lawfully by the same, is liable, on summary conviction of having had possession thereof, to a fine of twenty-five dollars, and in default of payment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labor.

ARTICLE 466.

SEARCHING FOR STORES NEAR HER MAJESTY'S VESSELS.

2 Every one who, without permission in writing from

150 & 51 Vict. (D.) c. 45, s. 9; 30 & 31 Vict. c. 128, s. 12.

250 & 51 Viet (D.) c. 45, ss. 11, 12; 38 & 39 Vict. c. 25, s. 8.