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General Provisions. prospective, or any promise or undertaking to give any, asked, given or accepted, with a corrupt intent to influence unlawfully the person to whom it is given, in his action, vote or opinion, in any public or official capacity.

§ 6967. The word "vessel," when used with reference to shipping, includes ships of all kinds, steamboats, and steamships, canal boats, and every structure adapted to be navigated from place to place.

§ 6968. The term "peace officer" signifies any sheriff, coroner, constable, policeman, watchman of an incorporation, city or town, and such other officer or officers whose duty it is made to enforce and preserve the public peace.

§ 6969. The term "magistrate" signifies any justice of the peace, judge of probate court, mayor of an incorporated city or town, and such other officer or officers whose duty it is made by law to examine and punish violations of the public peace.

§ 6970. The term "signature" includes any name, mark or sign, written with intent to authenticate any instrument or writing.

§ 6971. The term "writing" includes printing.

§ 6972. The term "real property" includes - every estate, interest and right in lands, tenements and hereditainents.

§ 6973. The term "personal property" includes every description of money, goods, chattels, effects, evidences of right in action, and written instruments by which any pecuniary obligation, right or title to property, real or personal, is created or acknowledged, transferred, increased, defeated, discharged or diminished.

§ 6974. The term "property" includes both real and personal property.

§ 6975. The word "person" includes corporations, as well as natural persons.

§ 6976. Where the term "person" is used in this code to designate the party whose property may be the subject of any offense, it includes this territory, any other state, government or country which may lawfully own any property within this territory, and all public and private corporations or joint associations, as well as individuals.

§ 6977. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.

§ 6978. Words used in the masculine gender, comprehend as well the feminine and neuter.

§ 6979. Words used in the present tense include the future, but exclude the past.

§ 6980. Whenever, by any of the provisions of this code an intent to defraud is required in order to constitute any offense, it is sufficient if an intent appears to defraud any person, association, or body politic or corporate whatever.

§ 6981. The omission to specify or affirm in this code, any liability to any damages, penalty, forfeiture or other remedy, imposed by law, and allowed to be recovered or enforced in any civil action or proceeding, for any act or omission declared punishable herein, does not affect any right to recover or enforce the same.

§ 6982. The omission to specify or affirm in this code any ground of forfeiture of a public office or other trust or special authority conferred law, to impeach, remove, depose or officer or other person holding any trust,