California · Penal Code

PEN §508: Every clerk, agent, or servant of any person who fraudulently appropriates to his own use, or secretes with a fraudulent intent to appropriate to his own use, any property of another which has come in

Felony

What this law says, in plain English

A clerk, agent, or servant who fraudulently takes or hides another's property received through employment commits embezzlement, a felony offense.

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Every clerk, agent, or servant of any person who fraudulently appropriates to his own use, or secretes with a fraudulent intent to appropriate to his own use, any property of another which has come into his control or care by virtue of his employment as such clerk, agent, or servant, is guilty of embezzlement.

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