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Definition of Defalcations
1. defalcation [n] - See also: defalcation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Defalcations
Literary usage of Defalcations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Military Laws of the United States: Relating to the Army, Volunteers by United States, John F. Callan (1868)
"That the act entitled " An act1 to prevent defalcations on the part of the ...
defalcations ..."
2. Practical Problems in Banking and Currency: Being a Number of Selected by Walter Henry Hull (1907)
"Bank defalcations can be divided into two classes: those for which the officers of
... The defalcations by officers can be traced to a variety of causes, ..."
3. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1839)
"defalcations.* The people of theUnited States are at last favored with the result
of the labors of the far-famed Committee of Investigation. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Insurance of Every Kind by Joseph Asbury Joyce (1917)
"... by defalcations of the employee after the policy was issued, even though the
answers were untrue, for they did not increase the risk or contribute to ..."
5. The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield (1904)
"Bossard, 35 Fed. Rep. 99. Civ. App. 1893) 24 SW Rep. 965. 4. When defalcations
Exceed Amount of Bond. bell Printing-Press, etc., Co. v. ..."
6. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1906)
"Under the flagrant disregard of the prescribed safeguards, it is not surprising
that defalcations were by no means infrequent. The general negligence and ..."
7. Surety Bonds: Nature, Functions, Underwriting Requirements by Edward Clark Lunt (1922)
"defalcations Not Wholly Due to Subjective Causes The underlying reasons for
embezzlements are so complex and manifold as hardly to be ..."
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