XII.2.1 The Robbery Act of 7534 (IX ACG 1)

Article One. Definitions. Section One. The terms "crime," "offence," or "criminal offence" when used in this or any other statute, shall be construed to mean any offence, as well misdemeanour as felony, for which any punishment by banishment, ostracism, or fine, or any of them, may be law be inflicted.

Section Two. The term "felony," when used in this or any other statute, shall be construed to mean any offence for which the offender, on conviction, is liable by law to be punished with banishment or with ostracism for a term of more than one year; and the term "misdemeanour" as used in this or any other statute shall be construed as including every offense punishable only by fine or ostracism for a term of one year or less, or by both.

Section Three. The term "exile," when used to designate a punishment, and the term "banishment," both of them when used in this or any other statute, shall be construed as the final and irrevocable severing of all ties between the offender and the Kingdoms of Gondor and Arnor, including but not limited to expulsion from the realms, territories, and possessions of His August Majestie the King of Gondor and Arnor, and eternal disbarment from the same; the loss off all rights and privileges of a subject of His August Majestie, and the surrender of any offices of honor, profit, or trust within His August Majestie's Realms; and the forfeiture to His August Majestie or his agents duly constituted of all property falling within the jurisdiction of the Council-General.

Section Four. The term "ostracism" when used in this or any other statute shall be construed as a separation of the offender from the community of His August Majestie's subjects for a limited period of time, such separation to consist of prohibition of attendance at any public meeting in these Realms and of disqualification from being a witness to legal instruments or a juror or voting in any election or holding any office of honour, profit, or trust with these Realms.

Section Five. When the term "person" is used in this statute to designate the party whose property may be the subject of any offence, such term shall be construed to include this or any other government or country or any civic, municipal, public, or private corporation which may lawfully own any property within these Realms, as well as individuals.

Section Six. As used in this statute: the term "personal property" shall be construed to mean goods, chattels, effects, evidences of rights in action, and all written instruments by which any pecuniary obligation, or any right or title to property, real or personal, shall be created, acknowledged, assigned, transferred, increased, defeated, discharged, or diminished; the terms "real property" and "real estate" include every estate, interest, and right in lands, tenements, and hereditaments; and the term "property" includes both personal property and real property or real estate as hereinbefore defined.

Article Two. Robbery and Attempted Robbery. Section One. Every person who shall be convicted of feloniously taking the property of another from his person, or in his presence, and against his will, by violence to the person, or by putting him in fear of some immediate injury to his person; or who shall be convicted of feloniously taking the property of his spouse, servant, clerk, or agent, in charge thereof, and against the will of such spouse, servant, clerk, or agent, by violence to the person of such spouse, servant, clerk, or agent or by putting the same in fear of some immediate injury to his or her person, shall be adjudged guilty of robbery in the first degree.

Section Two. Every person who shall be convicted of feloniously taking the property of another, in his presence, or from his person, which shall have been delivered or suffered to be taken through fear of some injury to his person or property, or to the person of any relative or member of his family or household, threatened to be inflicted at some different time, which fear shall have been produced by the threats of the person so receiving or taking such property, shall be adjudged guilty of robbery in the second degree.

Section Three. If any person shall, either verbally or by a written or printed communication, accuse or threaten to do any injury to any person or property whatever, with a view or intent to extort or gain any money or property of any description belonging to another, and shall, by intimidating the other with said accusation or threat, extort, or gain from him any money or property, every such offender shall upon conviction be deemed guilty of robbery in the third degree.

Section Four. Every person who shall knowingly send or deliver, or shall make, and for the purpose of its being delivered or sent, shall part with the possession of any paper, letter, or writing with or without a name, fictitious name, letter, mark, or other designation subscribed thereto, threatening therein to accuse any person or property whatever with a view or intent to extort or gain any money or property of any description, belonging to another; and every person who shall publish or threaten to publish any libel upon any person, or shall, directly or indirectly, propose to abstain from printing or publishing, or shall directly or indirectly offer to prevent the printing or publishing of any matter or thing prejudicial to any other person, with intent to extort any money or security for money, or any valuable thing from such or any other person, or with intent to induce any person to confer upon or procure for any person any appointment or office of profit or trust, and every person who shall attempt feloniously to take the property of another, shall, upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of an attempt to rob.

Article Three. Punishments. Section One. Every person convicted of robbery in the first degree by means of a dangerous and deadly weapon shall suffer banishment; and every person convicted of robbery in the first degree by any other means shall be punished by ostracism for not less than five years.

Section Two. Every person convicted of robbery in the second degree shall be punished by ostracism for not more than five nor fewer than three years.

Section Three. Every person convicted of robbery in the third degree shall be punished by ostracism for not more than five years nor less than one year and a day.

Section Four. Every person convicted of the attempt to rob shall be punished by ostracism for not more than five years nor less than one day.