28th September, 1936 THE PALESTINE GAZETTE 977 "Valuable security" includes any document w h i c h is the property of any person, and which is evidence of the ownership of any property or of the right to recover or receive any property. " W o u n d " means any incision or puncture w h i c h divides or pierces any exterior membrane of the body, and any membrane is exterior for the purpose of this definition w h i c h can be touched without dividing or piercing any other membrane. CHAPTER TERRITORIAL m . A P P L I C A T I O N OF C O D E . 6. The jurisdiction of the courts of Palestine for the purposes of this Code extends to every place w i t h i n Palestine or w i t h i n three nautical miles of the coast thereof measured from low water mark. 7. W h e n an act w h i c h , if wholly done w i t h i n the jurisdiction of the court, would be an offence against this Code, is done partly within and partly beyond the jurisdiction, every person who w i t h i n the jurisdiction does or makes any part of such act may be tried and punished under this Code i n the same manner as i f such act had been done wholly w i t h i n the jurisdiction. CHAPTER Extent of the jurisdiction of the courts. Offences committed partly within and partly beyond the jurisdiction. IV. G E N E R A L R U L E S AS TO C R I M I N A L RESPONSIBILITY. 8. Ignorance of the law does not afford any excuse for any act or omission which would otherwise constitute an offence unless knowledge of the law by the offender is expressly declared to be an element of the offence. ignorance of 9. A person under the age of nine years responsible for any act or omission. immature age. is not criminally l a w • A person under the age of twelve years is not criminally responsible for an act or omission, unless it is proved that at the time of doing the act or making the omission he had capacity to know that he ought not to do the act or make the omission. 10. A person is not criminally responsible i n respect of an offence relating to property, i f the act done or omitted to be done by h i m w i t h respect to the property was done i n the exercise of an honest claim of right and without intention to defraud or injure. B o n a f i d e claims 11. —(1) Subject to the express provisions of this Code relating to negligent acts and omissions, a person is not criminally responsible for an act or omission which occurs independently of the exercise of his w i l l , or for an event which occurs by accident. intention: (2) Unless the intention to cause a particular result is expressly declared to be an element of the offence constituted, i n whole or i n part, by an act or omission, the result intended to be caused by an act or omission is immaterial. (3) Unless otherwise expressly declared, the motive by w h i c h a person is induced to do or omit to do an act, or to form an intention, is immaterial so far as regards criminal responsibility. of right. motive,