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158 Sec. 587. Grand larceny is larceny committed in either of the following cases:

1. When the property taken is of value exceeding twenty-five dollars;

2. When such property, although not of value exceeding twenty-five dollars in value, is taken from the person of another,

Sec. 588. Larceny in other cases is petit larceny.

Sec. 589. Grand larceny is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding five years.

Sec. 590. Petit larceny is punishable as a misdemeanor.

Sec. 591. When it appears upon the trial of an indictment for grand larceny that the larceny alleged was committed in any dwelling house or vessel, the offender may be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding eight years.

Sec. 592. When it appears upon such trial, that such larceny was committed by stealing in the night time, from the person of another, the offender may be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding ten years.

Sec. 593. If the thing stolen consists of any evidence of debt or other written instrument, the amount of money due thereupon, or secured to be paid thereby, and remaining unsatisfied, of which in any contingency might be collected thereon, or the value of the property, the title to which is shown thereby, or the sum which might be recovered in the absence thereof, as the case may be, shall be deemed the value of the thing stolen.

Sec. 594. If the thing stolen is any ticket, or other paper or writing entitling or purporting to entitle the holder or proprietor thereof to a passage upon any railroad or in any vessel or other public conveyance, the price at which tickets entitling a person to a like passage, are usually sold by the proprietors of such conveyance, shall be deemed the value of such ticket.

Sec. 595. All the provisions of this chapter shall apply where the property taken is an instrument for the payment of money, evidence of debt, public security or passage ticket, completed and ready to be issued or delivered, though the same