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Misappropriation

Meaning and relationship to your legal situation.

What it means

Appropriating or diverting property received under a statutory obligation to deliver or return it. This must be distinguished from fraud and a purely contractual failure.

Legal reference

Spanish Criminal Code · art. 253, art. 254

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