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Sec. 783. ACTIONS NOT TO ABATE.-No action pending in favor of or against any corporation shall be discontinued or abate by the dissolution of the corporation, whether such dissolution occur by the expiration of its charter or otherwise, but all such actions may be prosecuted to final judgment in its corporate name; and on all judgments so obtained, whether before or after its dissolution, execution may be had and satisfaction enforced in such corporate name.

Sec. 784. A corporation may, after its dissolution, prosecute any action in and by its corporate name, for the use of the person or persons entitled to receive the proceeds of such action, upon any cause of action accrued, or which, but for such dissolution, would have accrued in favor of the corporation, in the same manner and with the like effect as if it had not been dissolved.

Sec. 785. SUITS AFTER DISSOLUTION.-Any such dissolved corporation may be sued by its corporate name for or upon any cause of action accrued or which, but for such dissolution, would have accrued against it in the same manner and with the like effect as if it were not dissolved; and process in such action may be served upon any one of the assignees, trustees, or receivers having the management of the assets of the corporation.

Sec. 786. INVOLUNTARY DISSOLUTION AT THE SUIT OF THE UNITED STATES. Whenever the district attorney of the United States for the District of Columbia shall become satisfied that any corporation organized under the laws of said District has been guilty of such misuse, abuse, or nonuser of its corporate powers and franchises, or such violation of law as would authorize and make proper the forfeiture of its charter, corporate powers, and franchises, the said district attorney shall file in the supreme court of the District a petition in the name of the United States, setting forth, fully and in detail, the alleged abuse, misuse, or nonuser by reason whereof such forfeiture is sought, which petition shall be supported by affidavits of credible persons; and upon the filing of such petition the said court shall lay a rule requiring such defendant corporation to show cause, within such time as the court may deem proper, why a decree should not issue as prayed in said petition, a copy of which rule and petition shall be served on said corporation by a day therein limited.

Sec. 787. ANSWER OF CORPORATION.-The said corporation, by the day named in said order, unless further time be granted by the court, shall file an answer to said petition, fully setting forth all the defenses upon which it intends to rely in resisting the application, which shall be verified by affidavit of some officer of the corporation.

Sec. 788. PLEADING. The petitioners may thereupon plead to or traverse all or any of the material averments set forth in the answer and the defendant shall join issue with or demur to said plea or traverse within five days thereafter.

Sec. 789. TRIAL.-If issue or issues be joined on such proceedings, the same shall stand for trial at such time as the court shall direct and shall be tried by a jury if either party desire it; otherwise, they shall be heard and determined by the court. If, from the findings of the jury or upon consideration and determination of the case by the court, the court shall be of opinion that legal cause of forfeiture has been shown and the public interests require that said forfeiture shall be

declared, a decree of forfeiture shall be entered and the charter of said corporation shall thereby be annulled and vacated and its corporate franchises and powers shall cease and be void; and the court shall thereupon appoint a receiver or receivers of the assets and estate of said corporation, who shall proceed to wind up the affairs of said corporation, for the benefit of its creditors and stockholders, under the direction of the court.

Sec. 790. If any corporation upon which a petition and rule to show cause shall have been served as aforesaid, shall neglect to file an answer thereto at the time appointed by the court, the court shall pro ceed to hear the application ex parte within five days thereafter, and if it shall be of opinion that good cause of forfeiture is shown it shall proceed to decree as provided in the preceding section.

Sec. 791. JUDGMENT.-If the court, either upon a hearing ex parte or after answer, shall be of opinion that no cause of forfeiture is shown or that the public interests do not demand that such forfeiture be decreed, though legal cause therefor has been shown, it shall dismiss the petition. And if the court shall determine that legal cause of forfeiture has been shown, it may, in its discretion, before passing a final decree of forfeiture, pass orders requiring the said corporation, within a time to be therein fixed, to remedy the grievance complained of, and may suspend the passage of the final decree of forfeiture until the time so fixed, and may afterwards refuse to pass such decree if the grievance shall have been remedied by the time so fixed..

[Sec. 792. APPEAL.-From any judgment or determination of the court on petitions filed for forfeiture, as aforesaid, either party may appeal to the court of appeals, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by said court.]

Sec. 793. INJUNCTION.-The district attorney may file a bill in the name of the United States in said supreme court for the purpose of restraining by injunction any corporation organized under the laws of the District from assuming or exercising any franchise, liberty, or privilege or transacting any business not allowed by its charter or certificate of incorporation or not by law allowed to be assumed or exercised by said corporation, and said district attorney may file a bill to enjoin any foreign corporation from transacting in the District of Columbia any business not allowed by its charter or certificate of incorporation, or from transacting any business in said District when it has not complied with any provision of this code relating to foreign corporations; and in the same manner may file a bill to restrain any individuals from exercising any corporate rights, privileges, or franchises not granted to them by law; and on the filing of any such bill the said supreme court shall have power to issue an injunction as prayed and to exercise all the powers of a court of equity over the subjectmatter of such bill.

Sec. 794. INVOLUNTARY DISSOLUTION AT THE SUIT OF CREDITORS.When any corporation in the District has remained insolvent for a year, or has neglected or refused for that period to pay and discharge its notes or other evidences of debt, or has, for that period, suspended its ordinary and lawful business, a bill may be filed by the district attorney, as aforesaid, for the dissolution of said corporation, or, if he shall decline to do so, on the application of any judgment creditor of said corporation, the said judgment creditor, if an execution upon his judgment shall be returned unsatisfied, in whole or in part, may file such bill.

Sec. 795. Upon prima facie proof of the facts necessary to sustain such suit the court may issue an injunction restraining the corporation, its trustees, directors, and officers from collecting or receiving any debt or demand and from paying out or transferring or delivering to any person any of its property or effects and from exercising any of its corporate rights and franchises during the pendency of the suit, unless by permission of the court. And at any stage of the proceed ing the court may appoint a receiver to collect and preserve the property of the corporation and dispose of and manage the same, under the direction of the court, until final decree in the cause.

Sec. 796. PARTIES.-Where the action is brought by a creditor, the stockholders, directors, trustees, or other officers, or any of them who may be made liable by law for the payment of the complainant's debt, may be made parties defendant by the original or a supplemental bill, and their liability may be declared and enforced by the decree; but nothing herein shall prevent any creditor from enforcing such liability in a separate suit against such parties.

Sec. 797. ACCOUNT AND DISTRIBUTION.—In such suit, if the court shall be of opinion that the complainant is entitled to the relief prayed, and that such corporation ought to be dissolved, the court shall cause an account to be taken of the assets and debts of the corporation and shall decree an equal distribution of the assets among the creditors, subject to existing liens; but if said corporation has no property to satisfy its creditors, or to the extent to which its property is insufficient therefor, the court may require the stockholders, who are parties defendant to the suit, to pay into court the amounts due and unpaid on the shares of stock held by them, and shall ascertain the amounts properly chargeable, in favor of creditors, to said stockholders and the trustees, directors, or other officers who are parties to the suit, and in the final decree for the dissolution shall adjudge and decree that said amounts shall be paid into court by the parties respectively liable therefor, to be applied to the payment of the debts of the corporation.

CHAPTER XIX.

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.

Subchapter I.-OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON.

Sec. 798. MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE. -Whoever, being of sound memory and discretion, purposely, and either of deliberate and premeditated malice or by means of poison, or in perpetrating or in attempting to perpetrate any offense punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary, kills another, is guilty of murder in the first degree.

Sec. 799. Whoever maliciously places an obstruction upon a railroad or street railroad, or displaces or injures anything appertaining thereto. or does any other act with intent to endanger the passage of any locomotive or car, and thereby occasions the death of another, is guilty of murder in the first degree.

Sec. 800. MURDER IN SECOND DEGREE. -Whoever with malice aforethought, except as provided in the last two sections, kills another is guilty of murder in the second degree.

Sec. 801. PUNISHMENT.-The punishment of murder in the first degree shall be death by hanging. The punishment of murder in the second degree shall be imprisonment for life, or for not less than twenty years.

Sec. 802. MANSLAUGHTER.-Whoever commits manslaughter shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding fifteen years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Sec. 803. ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO KILL, AND SO FORTH.-Every person convicted of any assault with intent to kill or to commit rape, or to commit robbery, or mingling poison with food, drink, or medicine with intent to kill, or willfully poisoning any well, spring, or cistern of water, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than fifteen years.

Sec. 804. MAYHEM.-Every person convicted of an assault with intent to commit mayhem, or of an assault with a dangerous weapon, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than ten years.

Sec. 805. ASSAULT.-Whoever assaults another with intent to commit any other offense which may be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary shall be imprisoned not more than five years.

Sec. 806. Whoever unlawfully assaults, or threatens another in a menacing manner, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not more than twelve months, or both.

Sec. 807. Every person convicted of mayhem or of maliciously dis figuring another shall be imprisoned for not more than ten years.

Sec. 808. RAPE.-Whoever has carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will, or carnally knows and abuses a female child under sixteen years of age, shall be imprisoned for not less than five nor more than thirty years: Provided, That in any case of rape the jury may add to their verdict, if it be guilty, the words "with the death penalty," in which case the punishment shall be death by hanging: Provided further, That if the jury fail to agree as to the punishment, the verdict of guilty shall be received and the punishment shall be imprisonment as provided in this section.

Sec. 809. PROCURING MISCARRIAGE.-Whoever, with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman, prescribes or administers to her any medicine, drug, or substance whatever, or with like intent uses any instrument or means, unless when necessary to preserve her life or health and under the direction of a competent licensed practitioner of medicine, shall be imprisoned for not more than five years; or if the woman or her child dies in consequence of such act, by imprisonment for not less than three nor more than twenty years.

Sec. 810. ROBBERY.-Whoever by force or violence, whether against resistance or by sudden or stealthy seizure or snatching, or by putting in fear, shall take from the person or immediate actual possession of another anything of value, is guilty of robbery, and any person convicted thereof shall suffer imprisonment for not less than six months nor more than fifteen years.

Sec. 811. Whoever attempts to commit robbery, as defined in the preceding section, by an overt act, shall be imprisoned for not more than three years or be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or both.

Sec. 812. ABDUCTION.-Whoever unlawfully and forcibly or fraudulently carries off or decoys out of the District any person, or arrests or imprisons any person with the intention of having such person carried out of the District, shall be imprisoned for not less than one nor more than seven years, or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both: Provided, That whoever leads, carries, or entices away a child under the age of sixteen years, with the intent unlawfully to detain or conceal such child so lead, taken, or enticed away, shall be imprisoned for not more than twenty years or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both.

Sec. 813. Any person who, for purposes of prostitution, persuades, entices, or forcibly abducts from her home or usual abode, or from the custody and control of her parents or guardian, any female under sixteen years of age shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than two nor more than twenty years; and whoever knowingly secrets or harbors any such female so persuaded, enticed, or abducted as aforesaid shall suffer imprisonment for not more than eight years.

Sec. 814. CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.-Any person who shall torture, cruelly beat, abuse, or otherwise willfully maltreat any child under the age of eighteen years; or any person, having the custody and possession of a child under the age of fourteen years, who shall expose, or aid and abet in exposing, such child in any highway, street, field, house, outhouse, or other place, with intent to abandon it; or any per son, having in his custody or control a child under the age of fourteen years, who shall in any way dispose of it with a view to its being

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