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Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) - Section 194
Ownership and possession of property injured.
CHAPTER II.--Malicious injuries to property.
Declaratory and general.

194. (1) Every act of malicious injury to property punishable under this Act,
shall be an offence so punishable, whether the property belonged to a private
person, or to Her Majesty, or was otherwise of a public nature.
(2) Every act of malicious injury done to property by any person, with intent
to injure or defraud another, shall be an offence within this Act, although
the offender was, at the time of its commission, in lawful possession of such
property.


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