Legal Definition and Related Resources of Graft

The corrupt practice of improperly acquiring money or money’s value by persons holding public office or in the employ of any government .

In equity. A term used to designate the right of a mortgagee in premises to which the mortgagor at the time of making the mortgage had an imperfect title, but who afterwards obtained a good title. In this case the new mortgage is considered a graft into the old stock, and as arising in consideration of the former title. 1 Ball & B. 40, 46, 57; 1 Powell, Mortg. 190. See 9 Mass. 84. The same principle has obtained by legislative enactment in Louisiana. If a person contracting an obligation towards another, says the Civil Code (article 2371), grants a mortgage on property of which he is not then the owner, this mortgage shall be valid if the debtor should ever acquire the ownership of the property, by whatever right.

noun

• blackmail
• bribery
• corruption
• exploitation
• fraudulent income
• hush money
• illegal profit
• illicit profit
• illicit revenue
• inserere
• kickback
• money illegallyacquired
• political corruption
• profiteering
• property illegally acquired
• unjust acquisition
• unlawful gain Associated Concepts: bribery
• corruption
• official misconduct

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