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False pretences.
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32. Every person who by any false pretence—
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(1) with intent to defraud, obtains from any other person any chattel, money, or valuable security, or causes or procures any money to be paid, or any chattel or valuable security to be delivered to himself or to any other person for the use or benefit or on account of himself or any other person; or
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(2) with intent to defraud or injure any other person, fraudulently causes or induces any other person—
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(a) to execute, make, accept, endorse, or destroy the whole or any part of any valuable security; or
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(b) to write, impress, or affix his name or the name of any other person, or the seal of any body corporate or society, upon any paper or parchment in order that the same may be afterwards made or converted into, or used or dealt with as, a valuable security;
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shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and on conviction thereof liable to penal servitude for any term not exceeding five years.
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