Penal Code · s 185

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s 185Illegal purchase or bid for property offered for sale by authority of public servant

Whoever, at any sale of property held by the lawful authority of a public servant, as such -

(a)

purchases or bids for any property on account of any person, whether himself or any other, whom he knows to be under a legal incapacity to purchase that property at that sale; or

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(b)

bids for such property not intending to perform the obligations under which he lays himself by such bidding, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month, fine not exceeding $800 or both.