Sec. 637. Every person who is authorized or enjoined by law to arrest another person for a violation of sections 634, 635 and 636, is equally authorized and enjoined to seize any false weights or measures found in the possession of the person so arrested, and to deliver the same to the magistrate before whom the person so arrested is required to be taken.
Sec. 638. The magistrate to whom any weight or measure is delivered pursuant to the last section, shall, upon the examination of the accused, or if the examination is delayed or prevented, without awaiting such examination, cause the same to be tested by comparison with standards conformable to law; and if he finds it to be false, he shall cause it to be destroyed, or to be delivered to the district attorney of the county in which the accused is liable to indictment or trial, as the interests of justice in his judgment require.
Sec. 639. Upon the conviction of the accused, such district attorney shall cause any weight or measure in respect whereof the accused stands convicted, and which remains in the possession or under the control of such district attorney, to be destroyed.
Sec. 640. Every person who knowingly marks or stamps false or short weight, or false tare on any cask or package, or knowingly sells or offers for sale any cask or package so marked, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
CHAPTER XI.
FRAUDULENT INSOLVENCIES BY INDIVIDUALS.
Section 641. Fraudulent conveyances.
642. Fraudulent removal of property to prevent levy.
643. Making assignments with preferences by in solvents prohibited.
644. Frauds in procuring discharge in insolvency.
Sec 641. Every person who, being a party to any conveyance or assignment of any real or personal property, or of any
