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PENAL CODE.

is specified in section 614, is punishable in the same manner as if such money or property were actually obtained by means of such threat.

Sec. 619. Every person who unsuccessfully attempts, by means of any verbal threat, such as is specified in section 614, to extort money or other property from another, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

CHAPTER VII.

FALSE PERSONATION, AND CHEATS.

Section 620. Falsely personating another.

621. Receiving property in false character.

622. Personating officers, firemen, and other persons.

623. Obtaining property by false pretenses.

624. Obtaining property for charitable purposes.

625. Obtaining negotiable evidence of debt by false pretenses.

626. Using false check or order for payment of money.

627. Mock auctions.

Sec. 620. Every person who falsely personates another, and in such assumed character, either:

1. Marries or pretends to marry; or to sustain the marriage relation towards another, with or without the connivance of such other person; or,

2. Becomes bail or surety for any party in any proceeding whatever, before any court or officer authorized to take such bail or surety; or,

3. Subscribes, verifies, publishes, acknowledges or proves, in the name of another person, any written instrument, with intent that the same may be delivered or used as true; or,

4. Does any other act, whereby if it were done by the person falsely personated, he might in any event become liable