Section 143 - Fraud as to thing pledged or taken in execution

A person who, secretly or by duress or deceit, and with intent to defraud, takes or obtains property from a person to whom that person has pawned, pledged, or otherwise bailed it or from a person having, by virtue of an execution, a seizure or any other process of law, the possession, custody, or control of the property, commits a misdemeanour.