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Penal Code § 363

CHAPTER 12. Other Injuries to Persons

Current as of September 28, 2026Pen. Code, § 363Official source ↗

Enacted 1872.

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.