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§§ 7718-7732 omission within the provisions of this code. It does not require any knowledge of the unlawfulness of such act or omission.

§ 7718. Bribe. The term “bribe," signifies any money, goods, right in action, property, thing of value or advantage, present or 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.

§ 7710. Vessel. 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.

§ 7720. Peace officer. 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.

§ 7721. Magistrate. The term "magistrate," signifies any judge of the supreme court or of the district court, justice of the peace, police magistrate and such other officer or officers as are authorized and empowered to issue warrants for the arrest of persons accused of crime.

§ 7722. Signature. The term "signature," includes any name, mark or sign, written with intent to authenticate any instrument or writing.

§ 7723. Writing. The term "writing," includes printing and typewriting.

§ 7724. Real property. The term “real property," includes every estate, interest and right in lands, tenements and hereditaments.

§ 7725. Personal property. 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.

§ 7726. Property. The term "property," includes both real and personal property.

§ 7727. Person defined. The word "person," includes corporations as well as natural persons.

§ 7728. Person further defined. When the term "person," is used in this code to designate the party whose property may be the subject of any offense, it includes this state, any other state, government or country which may lawfully own any property within this state, and all public and private corporations or joint associations, as well as individuals.

§ 7729. Singular includes plural. The singular number includes the plural, and the plural the singular.

§ 7730. Genders. Words used in the masculine gender, comprehend as well the feminine and neuter.

§ 7731. Present tense. Words used in the present tense include the future, but exclude the past.

§ 7732. Intent to defraud. 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.

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