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Fraudulent insolvency.-Any person who shall abscond with his property to the prejudice of his creditors, shall suffer the penalty of prision mayor, if he be a merchant, and the penalty of prision correccional in its maximum period to prision mayor in its medium period, if he be not a merchant.
CHAPTER SIX
SWINDLING AND OTHER DECEITS
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