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 the confiscated objects.

Confiscation of property may be prescribed only for crimes against the state and serious venal crimes in those cases enumerated of articles of the Special Part of the present Code.

When property is confiscated the state is not answerable for the debts and obligations of the convicted person if they have arisen after the taking of measures to confiscate property by organs of police inquiry, investigative organs, or judicial organs, and without agreement on the part of such organs.

With respect to claims against confiscated property, the state is answerable only within the limits of the assets. With regard to the priority for satisfying claims, the rules prescribed by the Code of Civil Procedure RSFSR shall be observed.

'''Article 36. Deprivation of military and other titles; also, of orders, medals, and honorary titles.'''

When a person possessing a military or special title is convicted of a serious crime he may, by sentence of the court, be deprived of such title.

When a person who has been awarded an order or medal or who possesses an honorary title, conferred by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet USSR, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet RSFSR, or of another union republic, or of an autonomous republic, or a military or other titles conferred by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet USSR, the Council of Ministers USSR, the Council of Ministers RSFSR, or of other union republic, has been convicted of a serious crime, the court when passing sentences decides the question as to whether to submit to the organ which awarded the order or medal to the convicted person, or which conferred the title upon him, that the convicted person be deprived of the order of medal, or the honorary, military, or other title. Chapter Five Assigning Punishment and Exemption from Punishment Article 37.The general principles of assigning punishment.

The court assigns punishment within the limits established by the articles of the Special Part of the present Code, which prescribe