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2011 California Code
Penal Code
PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25 - 680]
CHAPTER 12. Other Injuries to Persons
Section 363


CA Penal Code § 363 (through 2012 Leg Sess) What's This?

Every person who, either solely or as member of a Court, knowingly and unlawfully recommits, imprisons, or restrains of his liberty, for the same cause, any person who has been discharged upon a writ of habeas corpus, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Enacted 1872.)

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