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Meaning of Defalcation
The act of a defaulter. Embezzlement or misappropriation of public, or trust funds. The reduction of the claim of one of the contracting parties against the other, by deducting from it a smaller claim due from the former to the latter. See 1 Eawle (Pa.) 291; 3 Bin. (Pa.) 135.
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Defalcation in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims
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.
Note: This legal definition of Defalcation in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.
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