CHAPTER XXVI—OFFENCES ALLIED TO STEALING. 276. Concealing registers. Any person who, with intent to defraud, conceals or takes from its place of deposit any register which is authorised or required by law to be kept for authenticating or recording the title to any property, or for recording births, baptisms, marriages, deaths or burials, or a copy of any part of any such register which is required by law to be sent to any public office, commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for ten years. 277. Concealing wills. Any person, who with intent to defraud, conceals any testamentary instrument, whether the testator is living or dead, commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for ten years. 278. Concealing deeds. Any person who, with intent to defraud, conceals the whole or part of any document which is evidence of title to any land or estate in land commits a felony and is liable to imprisonment for three years. 279. Killing animal with intent to steal. Any person who kills any animal capable of being stolen with intent to steal the skin or carcass, or any part of the skin or carcass, commits an offence and is liable to the same punishment as if he or she had stolen the animal. 280. Severing with intent to steal. Any person who makes anything movable with intent to steal it commits an offence and is liable to the same punishment as if he or she had stolen the thing after it had become movable. 281. Fraudulent disposition of mortgaged goods. (1) Any person who, being the mortgagor of mortgaged goods, removes or disposes of the goods without the consent of the mortgagee, and with intent to defraud, commits a misdemeanour.