Notes - Demands with menace

Question 1

The ingredients for s239 (1)

Answer 1

• without claim of right
• by force or with any threat
• compels any person to execute, make, accept, endorse, alter or destroy
• any document capable of conferring a pecuniary advantage
• with intent to obtain any benefit

Question 2

S239(2)

Answer 2

• with menaces OR by any threat
• demands any property from any person
• with intent to steal it

Question 3

Some chick befriended an old lady, chick finds out that the old lady has a lot of cash on her bank acc. Demands for the lady to give up the pin number or she’ll tell her family not to have anything to do with her anymore

Answer 3

Demands with intent to steal