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Penal Code - PEN

PART 2. OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE [681 - 1620]

  ( Part 2 enacted 1872. )
  

TITLE 1. OF THE PREVENTION OF PUBLIC OFFENSES [692 - 727]

  ( Title 1 enacted 1872. )
  

CHAPTER 2. Of the Intervention of the Officers of Justice [697 - 698]
  ( Chapter 2 enacted 1872. )

  
698.  

When the officers of justice are authorized to act in the prevention of public offenses, other persons, who, by their command, act in their aid, are justified in so doing.

(Enacted 1872.)