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Other Offenses. 3. By imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment, when the crime or violation of statute compounded is a crime punishable by imprisonment in the county jail or by a fine, or is a misdemeanor or violation of statute for which a pecuniary or other penalty or forfeiture is prescribed,

§ 6998. Compounding prosecution. 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 withhold any evidence in aid thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6999. Attempting to intimidate officers. Every person who, directly or indirectly, utters or addresses any threat or intimidation to any judicial or ministerial officer, 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 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.

§ 7000. Suppressing evidence. 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 to 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.

§ 7001. Buying lands in suit. 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 tenerents are the subject of controversy, by 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.

§ 7002. Buying pretended titles. Every person who buys or sells or in any inanner 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 convenant has been in possession, or he and those by whom he claims have been in possession of the same, or of the reversion and remainder thereof, or have taken the rents and profits thereof for the space of one year before such grant, conveyance, sale, promise or covenant made, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7003. Does not prohibit mortgaging. The last two sections shall not be construed to prevent any person having a just title to lands, upon which there shall be an adverse possession, from executing a mortgage upon such lands.

§ 7004. Common barratry defined. Common barratry is the practice of exciting groundless judicial proceedings.

§ 7005. Misdemeanor. Common barratry is a misdemeanor.