What crime is fraudulent appropriation of property not intended by the owner?

• A. Larceny
• B. Embezzlement
• C. Fraud
• D. Robbery

Answer: (B)

Embezzlement means fraudulently converting property that you have legal possession of because of a position of trust. The key element is that the person already controls the property (as an employee, agent, or custodian) and then uses or takes it for themselves in a way not authorized by the owner. That fits the idea of appropriating property not intended by the owner, but doing so from a place of entrusted control rather than from a mere theft of property that the person had no right to possess in the first place.

This distinguishes it from larceny, where the taker never had lawful possession to begin with; from fraud, which centers on deception to obtain property (not necessarily something the offender was entrusted with); and from robbery, which involves taking property through force or intimidation.