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misappropriated

taken for ones own use in violation of a trust

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Misappropriation

Wrong appropriation wrongful use

Misappropriation by Servants Act, 1836 (English)

Misappropriation by Servants Act, 1836 (English) (26 & 27 Vict.c.103), provides that servants taking their masters' corn, etc., without

defalcation

over money that has been entrusted to one's care ;also : an instance of such failure compare embezzle, misappropriate NOTE: Defalcation does not necessarily involve culpability or misconduct. 2 : a failure to meet a promise or

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

Defamation

c. 41. See LIBEL 'SLANDER. Consult Odgers on Libel and Slander. The act of a defaulter: Embezzlement or misappropriation of public or trust funds: Diminution, abatement, excision of any part of a customary allowance; a cutting off,

Stolen property

s. 410, Penal Code. Only such property possession whereof has been transferred by theft, or extortion or criminal misappropriation or other offences allied to them as mentioned in s. 410, falls within the definition of 'stolen property',

Expulsion

(a) being in open rebellion, (b) being guilty of forgery, perjury, of frauds and breaches of trusts of misappropriation of public money, of conspiracy to defraud, of fraudulent conversion of property, of corruption in the administration of

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