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168 Sec. 633. Every person who presents or causes to be presented any false or fraudulent claim, or any proof in support of any such claim, upon any contract of insurance, for the payment of any loss, or who prepares, makes or subscribes any account, certificate, survey, affidavit, proof of loss, or other book, paper or writing, with intent to present or use the same, or to allow it to be presented or used in support of any such claim, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding three years, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both.

Section 634. Using false weights or measures.

635. Selling provisions by false weight or measure.

636. Keeping false weights.

637. False weights and measures authorized to be seized.

638. May be tested by committing magistrate, and destroy or deliver to district attorney.

639. Shall be destroyed after conviction of offender.

640. Stamping false weight or tare, on casks or packages.

Sec. 631. Every person who uses any weight or measure, knowing it to be false, by which use another is defrauded or otherwise injured, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 635. When the property sold by false weight or measure consists of any description of provisions, the offense is felony.

Sec. 636. Every person who retains in his possession any weight or measure, knowing it to be false, unless it appears beyond a reasonable doubt that it was so retained without intent to use it, or permit it to be used in violation of the last section, is guilty of a misdemeanor.