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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...
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...
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...
Embezzler
One who embezzles...
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...
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 ...
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...
Defraud
To deprive of some right interest or property by a deceitful device to withhold from wrongfully to injure by embezzlement to cheat to overreach as to defraud a servant or a creditor or the state with of before the thing taken or withheld...
Misprision
Misprision [fr. mepris, Fr.], neglect, negligence, or oversight.All such high offences as are under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon, are misprisions; and it is said that a misprision is contained in every treason and felony whatsoever, and that, if the Crown so please, the offender may be proceeded against for the misprision only. And upon the same principle, while the court of Star Chamber existed, it was held that the sovereign might remit a prosecution for treason, and cause the delinquent to be censured in that Court, merely for a high misdemeanour; as in the case of Roger, Earl of Rutland, in 43 Eliz., concerned in Essex's rebellion. Every great misdemeanour, according to Coke, which has no certain term appointed by the law, is sometimes called a misprision.Misprisions are divided in the text-books into two kinds:-(1) Negative, the concealment of what ought to be revealed; such is misprision of treason, the bare knowledge and concealment of treason without any ...
Depeculation
A robbing or embezzlement...
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