ICYMI:
Orvill C. Snyder published Word Magic and the Embezzlement of Real Property at 28 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 164 (July/August 1937). Here is the first paragraph of the article.
Can real property be embezzled? If the reader will try this question on lawyer or layman, he will receive conflicting responses. To the lawyer, the question seems one for decision under the wording of the embezzlement statute of each state, and nothing more. To the layman, the social and economic results attendant upon one or the other answer seem of chief significance. I, as a lawyer address myself to the legal aspect; but I do this in full recognition that, if a judicial decision entails immoral, anti-social, or uneconomic consequences, it is high time for lawyers to re-canvass the processes whereby that decision was reached, to discern whether after all the legal auspices themselves have really been read aright.
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