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Interpretation.
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30. In the construction of this Act the word “indictment” shall be understood to include “information,” “inquisition,” and “presentment,” as well as indictment, and also any “plea,” “replication,” or other pleading, and any nisi prius record; and the terms “finding of the indictment” shall be understood to include “the taking of an inquisition,” “the exhibiting of an information,” and “the making a presentment”; . . . and the word “property” shall be understood to include goods, chattels, money, valuable securities, and every other matter or thing, whether real or personal, upon or with respect to which any offence may be committed.
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