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Criminal law — arson — accused setting fire to his own property — when offence committed
Arson is the unlawful setting on fire of an immovable structure, with intent to injure another. To set one's own property on fire would not constitute an offence, unless someone else's property was also set on fire. Where the accused had permitted his wife to occupy one of his huts, she enjoyed a right to use that hut. That right was part of her general store of proprietary assets, and by setting the hut on fire, he intended thereby to deprive her of that right and benefit.
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