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[CITE: 10USC921]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
              CHAPTER 47--UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE
 
                     SUBCHAPTER X--PUNITIVE ARTICLES
 
Sec. 921. Art. 121. Larceny and wrongful appropriation

    (a) 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--
        (1) 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
        (2) 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.

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

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

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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921(a)................................  50:715(a).                           Ma
y 5, 1950, ch. 169, Sec.  1 (Art.
921(b)................................  50:715(b).                            1
21), 64 Stat. 140.
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    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).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 929, 937 of this title.
