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Penal Code - PEN 146. PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25. - 680.4.] TITLE 7. OF CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE [92. - 186.36.] CHAPTER 7. Other Offenses Against Public Justice [142. - 181.] Every public officer, or person pretending to be a public officer, who, under the pretense or color of any process or other legal authority, does any of the following, without a regular process or other lawful authority, is guilty of a misdemeanor: (a) Arrests any person or detains that person against his or her will. (b) Seizes or levies upon any property. (c) Dispossesses any one of any lands or tenements. Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 350, Sec. 11.

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