THE PALESTINE 1032 GAZETTE 28th September, 1936 (a) accuses or threatens to accuse any person of committing any felony or misdemeanour, or of offering or making any solicitation or threat to any person as an inducement to commit or permit the commission of any felony or mis­ demeanour ; o r (b) threatens that any person shall be accused by any other person of any felony or misdemeanour, or of any such act; or ( c ) knowing the contents of the writing, causes any person to receive any writing containing such accusation or threat as aforesaid; is guilty of a felony ; and if the accusation or threat of- accusation is o f : (i) an offence for which the punishment of prisonment' for life may be inflicted; or death or i m ­ (ii) any of the offences defined i n chapter X V I I , or an attempt to commit any of such offences; or (iii) an assault with intent to commit sodomy or an unlawful and indecent assault upon a male person; or (iv) a solicitation or threat offered or made to any person as an inducement to commit or permit the commission of any of the offences aforesaid ; the offender is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years. I n any other case the offender is liable four years. to imprisonment for It is immaterial whether the person accused or threatened to be accused has or has not committed the offence or act of which he is accused or threatened to be accused. Procuring execution of documents, etc. by threats. 292. A n y person who, w i t h intent to defraud, and by means of any unlawful violence to, or restraint of, the person of another, or by means of any threat of violence or restraint to be used to the person of another, or by means of accusing or threatening to accuse any person of committing any felony or misdemeanour, or by offering or making any solicitation or threat to any person as an inducement to commit or permit the commission of any offence, compels or induces any person :‫—־‬ (a) to execute, make, accept, indorse, alter, or destroy whole or any part of any valuable security; or the . ( b ) to write, impress, or affix any name or seal or other mark upon or to any paper or parchment, i n order that it may be afterwards made or converted or used or dealt w i t h as a valuable security ; is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen vears. Demanding property with menaces with intent to steal. 293. A n y person who, w i t h intent to steal any valuable t h i n g , demands it from any person w i t h menaces or force, is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years.