Note 499 — LEGAL STATUS OF THE DEAD BODY.
Reading edition
Some of the United States have enacted statutes declaring it to be a misdemeanor to attach or seize under execution a dead body. Arizona Pen. Code, 491, etc.; Cal. Pen. Code, sec. 295; Me. R. S., chap. 124, sec. 26; Mass. Pub. Stat., chap. 207, sec. 46; N. Dak. Comp. Laws, sec. 6,563; Oklahoma Stat., sec. 2,202; R. I. Pub. Stat., sec. 3,222.