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misappropriate

misappropriate : to appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully (as by theft or

Misappropriation by Servants Act, 1836 (English)

Misappropriation by Servants Act, 1836 (English) (26 & 27 Vict.c.103), provides

embezzle

with, from en-, prefix stressing completion + beseller to snatch, misappropriate, from Old French, to destroy] : to convert (property entrusted

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Misappropriate

To appropriate wrongly to use for a wrong purpose

defalcation

care ;also : an instance of such failure compare embezzle, misappropriate NOTE: Defalcation does not necessarily involve culpability or misconduct. 2

Broker

restrictions to which they were formerly subject. As to fraudulent misappropriation by brokers, see (English) Larceny Act, 1916, especially s. 20.

Stolen property

whereof has been transferred by theft, or extortion or criminal misappropriation or other offences allied to them as mentioned in s.

Expulsion

of forgery, perjury, of frauds and breaches of trusts of misappropriation of public money, of conspiracy to defraud, of fraudulent conversion

Embezzlement

from larceny in this, that in the former the property misappropriated is not at the time in the actual or legal

Defamation

Libel and Slander. The act of a defaulter: Embezzlement or misappropriation of public or trust funds: Diminution, abatement, excision of any

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