Larceny By Bailee
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A statutory offense existing in one or two states, consisting of the fraudulent conversion of property by a bailee thereof. The offense is covered by the ordinary statutes against embezzlement. LARGE (Law Fr.) Broad; the opposite of estreyte, strait or strict. Pures et la/rges. Britt. c. 34.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
In Pennsylvania law. The crime of larceny committed where "any person, being a bailee of any property, shall fraudulently take or convert the same to his own use, or to the use of any other person except the owner thereof, although he shall not break bulk or otherwise determine the bailment" Brightly's Purd. Dig. p. 436, § 177. And see Welsh v. People, 17 111. 339; State v. Skinner, 29 Or. 599, 46 Pac. 368.
Defined under Larceny in Black's Law Dictionary.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In Pennsylyanialaw. The crime of larceny committed where “any person, being a bailee of any property, shall fraudulently take or convert the same to his own use, or to the use of any other person except the owner thereof, although he shall not break bulk or otherwise determine the bailment.” Brightly’s Purd. Dig. p. 436, § 177,