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Embezzlement, the appropriation to his own use by a clerk or servant of money, valuable securities or chattels received by him for and on account of his master or employer. Embezzlement differs from larceny in this, that in the former the property misappropriated is not at the time in the actual or legal possession of the owner, whilst in the latter it is. The distinctions between larceny and embezzle-ment are often extremely nice and subtle, and it is sometimes difficult to say under which head the offence ranges. Unless the offender is a clerk or servant whose business it is to receive money for his master, he is not guilty of embezzlement. But if he have been employed to receive it in a single instance, he need not be a general servant. Partners stealing or embezzling money, etc., belonging to the co-partnership may be convicted and punished as if they had not been such partners. [(English) Larceny Act, 1916, s. 40 (4)]The fraudulent taking of personal property with which one has be...
embezzled
taken for ones own use in violation of a trust of money as the banker absconded with embezzled payroll the embezzled funds amounted to millions of dollars...
Embezzlement
The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted as the embezzlement by a clerk of his employers money embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge...
embezzle
embezzle em·bez·zled em·bez·zling [Anglo-French embeseiller to make away with, from en-, prefix stressing completion + beseller to snatch, misappropriate, from Old French, to destroy] : to convert (property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use compare defalcate em·bez·zle·ment n em·bez·zler n ...
Embezzle
To appropriate fraudulently to ones own use as property intrusted to ones care to apply to ones private uses by a breach of trust as to embezzle money held in trust...
Embezzler
One who embezzles...
Larceny
Larceny [fr. larcin, Fr.; latrocinium, Lat.], contracted from latrociny, the unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal, with intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same. Larceny is a felony, and is either simple or accompanied with circumstances of aggravation:(1) Simple larceny at Common Law, or plain theft. To constitute the offence there must be an unlawful taking, which implies that the goods must pass from the possession of a true owner (including one who has a qualified property only in the goods, as a bailee), and without his consent; where there is, then, no change of possession, or a change of it by consent, or a change from the possession of a person without title to that of the true owner, there cannot be a larceny. As to the difference between property parted with by the owner of his own free will, however fradulently influenced, in other words, between property 'entrusted' and 'possession by a trick,' see Oppenheimer v. Frazer, (1907) 2 KB 50, and Lake v. S...
barratry
barratry pl: -tries [Middle French baraterie deception, from barater to deceive, cheat] 1 : an unlawful act or fraudulent breach of duty by a ship's master or crew that injures the interests of the ship's or cargo's owners often used in marine insurance policies NOTE: Examples of barratry include embezzling cargo, stealing a ship's equipment, or willfully sinking a ship. 2 : the persistent incitement of litigation ...
convert
convert 1 a : to change from one form or use to another b : to exchange (property) for another esp. of a different kind [if property…is compulsorily or involuntarily ed "Internal Revenue Code"] ;esp : to exercise the right of conversion by exchanging (preferred shares or bonds) for common stock 2 : to appropriate (another's property) by conversion [the bailee ed the goods to his own use] see also embezzle con·vert·er n con·ver·ti·ble [kən-vər-tə-bəl] adj ...
defalcate
defalcate -cat·ed -cat·ing : to commit defalcation compare embezzle de·fal·ca·tor [-kā-tər] n ...
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