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Definition of Embezzled
1. Adjective. Taken for your own use in violation of a trust. "The banker absconded with embezzled funds"
Definition of Embezzled
1. Verb. (past of embezzle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Embezzled
1. embezzle [v] - See also: embezzle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embezzled
Literary usage of Embezzled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1897)
"Where the embezzlement of public money is denounced, it need not be alleged in
terms that the money embezzled was public money, but it is sufficient that ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Master and Servant: Including Therein Masters and by Charles Manley Smith (1860)
"... terials as aforesaid, by persons who sell them knowing them to have selling,
been purloined or embezzled ; be it therefore further enacted, that J^. ..."
3. The Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of New York by New York (State) (1850)
"DISPOSAL OF PROPERTY, STOLEN OR embezzled. SECTION 753. When property, alleged
to be stolen or embezzled, comes into custody of peace officer, ..."
4. The Penal Code of California: Enacted in 1872; as Amended in 1881 by California (1881)
"When property, alleged to have been stolen or embezzled, comes into the custody
... If the property stolen or embezzled has not been delivered to the owner, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of the Domestic Relations: Embracing Husband and Wife by James Schouler (1895)
"Ward's Right to recover embezzled Property, &c. — Courts of chancery will always
aid the ward in recovering property embezzled, concealed, or conveyed away ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"We are of opinion, notwithstanding the allegation of counsel that there was no
jurisdiction because the indictment did not charge that the letter embezzled ..."
7. An Analytical Digest of the Law and Practice of the Courts of Common Law by Ephraim Arnold Jacob, Samuel Bealey Harrison, Robert Alexander Fisher (1884)
"51, for having in possession articles suspected to be purloined or embezzled,
was not in the form given by the schedule to the latter statute, and purported ..."
8. The Code of Civil Procedure: Of the State of California by California, Creed Haymond (1872)
"Citation to person suspected to have embezzled estate, etc. 1460. Refusal to obey
citation, penalty for and for embezzlement. May be compelled to disclose ..."
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