California Penal Code 642 – Every person who wilfully and maliciously removes and keeps …
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Every person who wilfully and maliciously removes and keeps possession of and appropriates for his own use articles of value from a dead human body, the theft of which articles would be petty theft is guilty of a misdemeanor, or if the theft of the articles would be grand theft, a felony. This section shall not apply to articles removed at the request or direction of one of the persons enumerated in § 7111 of the Health and Safety Code.
(Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 691.)
Terms Used In California Penal Code 642
- maliciously: import a wish to vex, annoy, or injure another person, or an intent to do a wrongful act, established either by proof or presumption of law. See California Penal Code 7
- person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See California Penal Code 7