Penal Code · s 503

Suggest a correction

Tell us what is wrong in this text. We check every suggestion against the official version before we change anything.

What is wrong?Wrong or mistyped wordsWrong structure or numberingWrong title or detailsText that appears twice

What should change, and whyUp to 2,000 characters.The text as it should read (optional)Edit the text above. Up to 20,000 characters.Where you checked it (optional)A link to the official version, if you have one.

The text as we hold it

Open the official text

s 503Criminal intimidation

Whoever threatens another with any injury to his person, reputation, or property, or to the person or reputation of anyone in whom that person is interested. with intent to cause -

(a)

alarm to that person; or

(b)

that person to do any act which he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do any act which that person is legally entitled to do, as the means of avoiding the execution of such threat, commits criminal intimidation.

Explanation -

A threat to injure the reputation of any deceased person in whom the person threatened is interested is within this section.

A. for the purpose of inducing B to desist from prosecuting a civil suit, threatens to burn

B's house. A is guilty of criminal intimidation.