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California Penal Code

§ 505

PEN § 505Title 13 · Part 1 · Ch. 6

Statute text

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Every carrier or other person having under his control personal property for the purpose of transportation for hire, who fraudulently appropriates it to any use or purpose inconsistent with the safe keeping of such property and its transportation according to his trust, is guilty of embezzlement, whether he has broken the package in which such property is contained, or has otherwise separated the items thereof, or not.

Legislative history

Enacted 1872.

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