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If a person has substituted on an item of goods displayed in a self-service store a price label showing a lesser price for one showing a greater price, with the intention of paying the lesser price and then pays the lesser price at the till and takes the goods, is there at any stage a 'dishonest appropriation' for the purposes of Section 1 of ...
Consequently, said Lord Hutton, a person's appropriation of property belonging to another should not be regarded as dishonest if the other person actually gives the property to him. His Lordship drew further support for this argument from Viscount Dilhorne’s judgment in R v Lawrence, and that of Pill LJ in R v Mazo [1997] 2 Cr App R 518.
Debtor's dishonesty [5] or dishonesty to creditors [6] is a crime in Finland and Sweden. It is an abuse of the bankruptcy process, where the debtor attempts to prevent the recovery of assets. In Finnish law, the crimes of debtor's dishonesty ( velallisen epärehellisyys ) and aggravated debtor's dishonesty ( törkeä velallisen epärehellisyys ...
Appropriation, consent Lawrence v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (otherwise known as R v Lawrence ) [1972] AC 262 is an English criminal law case establishing that the appropriation of property — under the meaning of the Theft Act 1968 — can be consented to.
In England and Wales, a theft occurs when there is a dishonest appropriation of property belonging to another with the intention to permanently deprive. [4] This definition can therefore include property that is found, whether abandoned or incorrectly delivered, where the finder does not take appropriate steps to return it to the lawful owner.
One form is the appropriation of the ideas and results of others, and publishing as to make it appear the author had performed all the work under which the data was obtained. A subset is citation plagiarism – willful or negligent failure to appropriately credit other or prior discoverers, so as to give an improper impression of priority.
Embezzlement is the illegal taking or appropriation of money or property that has been entrusted to a person but is actually owned by another. In political terms this is called graft, which is when a political office holder unlawfully uses public funds for personal purposes.
In criminal law, misappropriation is the intentional, illegal use of the property or funds of another person for one's own use or other unauthorized purpose, particularly by a public official, a trustee of a trust, an executor or administrator of a deceased person's estate or by any person with a responsibility to care for and protect another's assets (a fiduciary duty).