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Cal. Penal Code § 789

Current through 2025–2026 Regular Session (leginfo weekly dump, 2026-07-12)

Part of Chapter 1: Of the Local Jurisdiction of Public Offenses, California Penal Code.

Full text of Cal. Penal Code § 789

Statutory text current through the 2025–2026 Regular Session (leginfo weekly dump, 2026-07-12). This publication reproduces the official statutory text; it is not the official statutes of the State of California.

Cal. Penal Code § 789Primary source, current through the 2025–2026 Regular Session (leginfo weekly dump, 2026-07-12)
The jurisdiction of a criminal action for stealing or embezzling, in any other state, the property of another, or receiving it knowing it to have been stolen or embezzled, and bringing the same into this State, is in any competent court into or through the jurisdictional territory of which such stolen or embezzled property has been brought.

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