§ 921. Art. 121. Larceny and wrongful appropriation

Statutory text

Any person subject to this chapter who wrongfully takes, obtains, or withholds, by any means, from the possession of the owner or of any other person any money, personal property, or article of value of any kind—

with intent permanently to deprive or defraud another person of the use and benefit of property or to appropriate it to his own use or the use of any person other than the owner, steals that property and is guilty of larceny; or

with intent temporarily to deprive or defraud another person of the use and benefit of property or to appropriate it to his own use or the use of any person other than the owner, is guilty of wrongful appropriation.

Any person found guilty of larceny or wrongful appropriation shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1956
(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 73.) · 70A Stat. 73
Enacted · 10 U.S.C. § 921
(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 73.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 73.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Notes

historicalAndRevision

Historical and Revision Notes
Revised section	Source (U.S. Code)	Source (Statutes at Large)
921(a)921(b)	50:715(a).50:715(b).	May 5, 1950, ch. 169, § 1 (Art. 121), 64 Stat. 140.

In subsection (a), the words “whatever” and “true” are omitted as surplusage. The word “it” is substituted for the words “the same” in clauses (1) and (2).

Credits

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 73.)