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Penal Code · 2021 Revised Edition · Chapter XXII · Criminal Intimidation, Insult and Annoyance
Penal Code · 2021 Revised Edition · Chapter XXII · Criminal Intimidation, Insult and Annoyance
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
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 -
alarm to that person; or
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.
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Chapter XXIII