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Lapping

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Lapping, means an embezzlement technique by which an employee takes funds from one customer's accounts receivable and covers it by using a second customer's payment to pay the first account, then a third customer's payment to pay the second account, and so on, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 885.

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