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Rh Sec. 184. Every person who takes any money or property of another, or any gratuity or reward, or any engagement or promise therefor, upon any agreement or understanding, express or implied, to compound, discontinue or delay any prosecution then pending for any crime or violation of statute, or to withold any evidence, in aid thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec 185. Every person who, directly or indirectly, utters or addresses any threat or intimidation to any judicial or ministerial officer, or to any juror, referee, arbitrator, umpire or assessor, or other person authorized by law to hear or determine any controversy, with intent to induce him either to do any act not authorized by law, or to omit or delay the performance of any duty imposed upon him by law, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 186. Every person who maliciously practices any deceit or fraud, or uses any threat, menace or violence, with intent to prevent any party to an action or proceeding from obtaining or producing therein any book, paper, or other matter or thing which might be evidence, or from procuring the attendance or testimony of any witness therein, or with intent prevent any person having in his possession any book, paper, or other matter or thing which might be evidence in such suit or proceeding, or to prevent any person being cognizant of any fact material thereto from producing or disclosing the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 187. Every person who takes any conveyance of any lands or tenements, or of any interest or estate therein, from any person not being in the possession thereof, while such lands, or tenements are the subject of controversy, hy suit in any court, knowing the pendency of such suit and that the grantor was not in possession of such lands or tenements, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 188. Every person who buys or sells, or in any manner procures, or makes or takes any promise or covenant to convey any pretended right or title to any lands or tenements, unless the grantor thereof or the person making such promise or covenant has been in possession or he and those by whom he claims have been in possession of the same or of the rever-