fraudulent conversion

'You can plead not guilty to that second charge, of fraudulent conversion.

Q4: theft as a concept includes fraudulent conversion, taking of something that is not yours.

While they might be guilty of fraudulent conversion or larceny by bailee, the prosecution did not charge those crimes.

It created offences of fraudulent conversion.

This offence replaces the former offences of larceny, embezzlement and fraudulent conversion.

He has criticized Christian missionaries for fraudulent conversion practices in the Northeast of India.

He held the seat until 1892, when he was expelled from the House of Commons and convicted of fraudulent conversion.

'But they're saying that he's been arrested, in London, for fraudulent conversion and a charge of falsifying a prospectus.'

Fraudulent Conversion: The Myth of Moscow's Change (1955)

Certainly, if he seeks my counsel, I shall advise him to do so, for if I ever saw fraudulent conversion of corporate funds, it's here."

'The committee generally are strongly of opinion that larceny, embezzlement and fraudulent conversion should be replaced by a single new offence of theft.

In 1922, Bottomley was convicted of fraudulent conversion of shareholders' funds, sentenced to seven years jail and expelled from Parliament.

At the Central Criminal Court in 1922 he successfully prosecuted Horatio Bottomley for fraudulent conversion.

Similarly, fraudulent conversion, contrary to section 20(1) (iv) of the [Act of 1916], required an act inconsistent with the terms on which the property was received.

The former offences of fraudulent conversion are replaced by the new offence of theft, contrary to section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968.

'Fraudulent conversion' is accepted as the starting point for the new and comprehensive definition of theft and 'dishonest appropriation'is chosen as a synonym.

Both expressions embody the notion of an adverse unilateral act done to the prejudice of the owner and without his authority; indeed, fraudulent conversion can have no other meaning.

Whichever is the true view, the general offence of fraudulent conversion has proved valuable, covering as it does in clear language a wide range of circumstances in which property may be misappropriated.

In spring 2005 Mrs. Lahtinen was sentenced to three years in prison for gross fraudulent conversion, after which she disappeared in an apparent attempt to evade the prison sentence.

The committee observed at paragraph 18 that the fact that misappropriation of property was dealt with under the three separate heads of larceny, embezzlement and fraudulent conversion inevitably made for difficulty and complication.

Lawful possession: The critical element is that the defendant must have been in lawful possession of the property at the time of the fraudulent conversion and not have mere custody of the property.

In England and Wales, the term fraudulent conversion was applicable to the offences under the Larceny Act 1901 and under sections 20 and 21 of the Larceny Act 1916.

On that day, he informed Justice Minister Wilhelm Marx that, in his opinion, the intended expropriations did not serve the public interest but represented nothing more an fraudulent conversion of assets for political reasons.

Their names are known but they are untouchable because they have never committed any known crimes, not even fraudulent conversion of stocks, because the stocks are always good, the claimants always proven.

"As a Jew and a rabbi loyal to the tradition and Bible of Israel, I have declared and declare again that my hand will never ever sign for a fraudulent conversion that was not conducted according to the Halakha."