Oklahoma § 21-1768 - Malicious injury to freehold - Carrying away earth, soil

§ 21-1768. Malicious injury to freehold - Carrying away earth, soil

or stone.

Every person who willfully commits any trespass by either:

1. Cutting down or destroying any kind of wood or timber,

standing or growing upon the lands of another; or, driving or riding

through, into, or across any cultivated hedge or tree row, or any

grove of ornamental trees or orchard of fruit trees growing upon the

land of another, or in any other manner injurying the same; or,

2. Carrying away any kind of wood or timber that has been cut

down, and is lying on such lands; or,

3. Maliciously severing from the freehold any produce thereof,

or anything attached thereto; or,

4. Digging, taking, or carrying away from any lot situated

within the bounds of any incorporated city, without the license of

the owner, or legal occupant thereof, any earth, soil or stone,

being a part of the freehold, or severed therefrom at some previous

time, under such circumstances as would render the trespass a

larceny, if the thing so severed or carried away were personal

property; or,

5. Digging, taking, or carrying away from any land in any

incorporated city or town of this state, laid down on the map or

plan of said city or town as a street or avenue, or otherwise

established or recognized as a street or avenue, without the license

of the mayor and common council or other governing body of such city

or town, or owner of the fee thereof, any earth, soil or stone under

such circumstances as would render the trespass a larceny, if the

thing so severed or carried away were personal property;

is guilty of a misdemeanor.

R.L.1910, § 2773.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 21. Crimes and Punishments