LawgistThe Indian Penal Code
23''Wrongful gain''
"Wrongful gain" is gain by unlawful means of property to which the person gaining is not legally entitled.
"Wrongful loss".—"Wrongful loss" is the loss by unlawful means of property to which the person losing it is legally entitled.
Gaining wrongfully/Losing wrongfully.—A person is said to gain wrongfully when such person retains wrongfully, as well as when such person acquires wrongfully. A person is said to lose wrongfully when such person is wrongfully kept out of any property, as well as when such person is wrongfully deprived of property.
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GENERAL EXPLANATIONS
- 6 Definitions in the Code to be understood subject to exceptions
- 7 Sense of expression once explained
- 8 Gender
- 9 Number
- 10 ''Man''. ''Woman''
- 11 ''Person''
- 12 ''Public''
- 13 [Omitted.]
- 14 ''Servant of Government''
- 15 [Repealed.]
- 16 [Repealed .]
- 17 ''Government''
- 18 ''India''
- 19 ''Judge''
- 20 ''Court of Justice''
- 21 ''Public servant''
- 22 ''Moveable property''
- 23 ''Wrongful gain''
- 24 ''Dishonestly''
- 25 ''Fraudulently''
- 26 ''Reason to believe''
- 27 Property in possession of wife, clerk or servant
- 28 ''Counterfeit''
- 29 ''Document''
- 29A ''Electronic record''
- 30 ''Valuable security''
- 31 ''A will''
- 32 Words referring to acts include illegal omissions
- 33 ''Act''."Omission
- 34 Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention
- 35 When such an act is criminal by reason of its being done with a criminal knowledge or intention
- 36 Effect caused partly by act and partly by omission
- 37 Co-operation by doing one of several acts constituting an offence
- 38 Persons concerned in criminal act may be guilty of different offences
- 39 ''Voluntarily''
- 40 ''Offence''
- 41 ''Special law''
- 42 ''Local law''
- 43 ''Illegal''."Legally bound to do"
- 45 ''Life''
- 47 ''Animal''
- 48 ''Vessel''
- 49 ''Year''."Month
- 50 ''Section''
- 51 ''Oath''
- 52 ''Good faith''
- 52A ''Harbour-''
