Appropriation

APPROPRIATION - The application of the payment of a sum of money, made by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts.

Misappropriation
(n) Misappropriation is the wrong application or utilization of funds allocated for any specific purposes, by illegally diverting the money, forging the documents or otherwise misleading the beneficiaries and owners of the fund.

Acts of Parliament giving authority to Parliament's appropriation spending.
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Appropriation: The act of taking control of something, such as the taking over of private property for public use.
Approval: The act of agreeing and sanctioning.

Misappropriation of Funds:
The wrongful taking of funds by a person to whom funds are entrusted.
Misrepresentation:
To describe or present incorrectly, improperly or falsely.

misappropriation
n. the intentional, illegal use of the property or funds of another person for one's own use or other unauthorized purpose, particularly by a public official, a trustee of a trust, ...

The misappropriation or embezzlement of money.
Defalcation implies that funds have in some way been mishandled, particularly where an officer or agent has breached his or her fiduciary duty.

(i) Wilful killing;(ii) Torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments;(iii) Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health;(iv) Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, ...

Every appropriation of the right of property of another is not fraud. It must be unlawful; that is to say, such an appropriation as is not permitted by law. Property loaned may, during the time of the loan, be appropriated to the use of the borrower.

The Western states generally follow the appropriation doctrine which gives a water right to whoever first puts water to beneficial use.

Corporations owned by the federal government and financed by government appropriations include the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Community Credit Corporation, and various corporations established to meet emergencies and later liquidated.

a : an unauthorized rerouting or appropriation <~ of funds>
b : suspension of the prosecution of a charge for a period of time during which the defendant participates in a rehabilitation program or makes restitution and after which the ...

embezzlement - The fraudulent appropriation by a person to his own use or benefit or property or money entrusted to him by another.

eminent domain - The power to take private property for public use by the state and municipalities.

individual has a right to privacy from: a) intrusion on one's solitude or into one's private affairs; b) public disclosure of embarrassing private information; c) publicity which puts him/her in a false light to the public; d) appropriation of one's ...

U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act of 2007
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Defalcation. Latin diffalcare, to abate, deduct, take away. 1. Reduction of a claim by allowance of a counter-claim. 2. Misappropriation of trust funds - by a public or corporate officer.

item veto The authority of the governor to veto an item in an appropriation bill without affecting other provisions in the bill.
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jeopardy See double jeopardy.

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