interest, which includes public authorities and corporations, political parties, labor or professional unions or syndicates and federations, associations, administrative units and local councils. Legal Person: Includes companies, authorities, institutions and associations that acquire such legal status in accordance with the Law and which are governed as natural persons, with respect other crimes stipulated in this Law and for which only those punishments that can be practically applied thereto shall be adequate. Punitive Facilities: These are the Facilities that are identified in the Law of Prisons. Official Document1: This is intended to imply any correspondence to which a public authority, institution or corporation is responsible for issuing, or any of the latter, which the Government is owner of, more than 51 % thereof. Absentee: This is a person whose whereabouts are unknown, unheard of and it is uncertain whether if such person is alive or dead. Blood Heirs: These are deemed to be the legal heirs of the victim of a crime or their legal representatives Principles of Legitimacy Article (2): Criminal Liability is personal and any crime and punishment must be defined by law as such. Territorial Jurisdiction Article (3): This Law is applicable for all the crimes that occur within the territory of THE REPUBLIC OF YEMEN, notwithstanding the citizenship of the perpetrator thereof; a crime is deemed to have occurred in THE REPUBLIC OF YEMEN territory, if any of the deeds that constitutes such a crime occur, any time such crime is perpetrated partially or fully in THE REPUBLIC OF YEMEN territory, this Law shall be applicable thereto on anyone who participates therein, even if such participation is undertaken overseas. This law also applies to the crimes that occur outside THE REPUBLIC OF YEMEN territory; which Yemeni courts have jurisdiction over in accordance with the Law for Criminal Proceedings. The Reference to the Most Appropriate Law Article (4): The effective Law is applied at the time that a crime is perpetrated, provided that if a law or laws are issued after the occurrence of a crime and prior to a decisive ruling issued thereto, the most appropriate law shall apply 1 I.e., any written document, deed, notice, record, etc.