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Statutes > Mississippi > Title-97 > 23 > 97-23-27§ 97-23-27. Embezzlement; property borrowed or hired.
The fraudulent appropriation of certain specific property by one to whom it has been delivered on a contract or loan for use, or of letting and hiring, after the time at which, according to the contract, the right of use acquired thereby has ceased, or before that time by a disposition not authorized by the contract, shall be an offense within the meaning of Section 97-23-25 and shall be punished as therein prescribed.
Sources: Codes, 1880, § 2786; 1892, § 1062; 1906, § 1140; Hemingway's 1917, § 868; 1930, § 893; 1942, § 2119.
