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In some cases the exercise of the dominion may amount to an act of trespass or to a crime, e.g. where the taking amounts to larceny, or fraudulent appropriation by a bailee or agent entrusted with the property of another (Larceny Acts of 1861 and 1901). Fraudulent conversion by any person to his own use (or that of persons other than the owner ...
Ferguson v. JONAH, New Jersey Superior Court No. L-5473-12 (N.J. Super. Ct. Law Div. 2015) is a landmark LGBT civil rights case in which a New Jersey jury unanimously determined that conversion therapy, also called "reparative therapy," "reorientation therapy," or "ex-gay therapy" constituted consumer fraud.
The two-pronged definition of fraudulent conversion is "conversion [n 1] that is committed by the use of fraud, either by obtaining the property, or in withholding it". [1] In England and Wales, the term fraudulent conversion was superseded by the identically named offences under the Larceny Act 1901 and sections 20 and 21 of the Larceny Act 1916.
Practitioners are currently working in almost every U.S. state.
One of Iowa's largest cities repealed its ban on “conversion therapy” — the discredited practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling ...
Larceny is a crime of criminal trespass on the possessory rights of another. A person lawfully possessing another's property who converts the property to his own use, or otherwise deprives the owner of its use cannot be guilty of larceny because he lawfully received the property; the possessor, however, could be guilty of fraudulent conversion.
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Fraudulent conversion of property, contrary to section 1(1)(a) of Larceny Act, 1901. PARTICULARS OF OFFENCE. A.B. , on the day of , in the county of , fraudulently converted to his own use and benefit certain property, that is to say, 100 l . entrusted to him by H.S. in order that he, the said A.B. , might retain the same in safe custody.