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disappeared person

disappeared person. A person who has been absent from home for a specified number of continuous years (often five or seven) and who, during that period, has not communicated with the person most likely to know his or her whereabouts. See SEVEN-YEARS’-ABSENCE RULE; MISSING PERSON. [Cases: Absentees 2. C.J.S. Absentees § 2.]

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misappropriation

misappropriation, n. 1. The application of another’s property or money dishonestly to one’s own use. See EMBEZZLEMENT. Cf. APPROPRIATION; EXPROPRIATION. 2. Intellectual property. The common-law tort of using the noncopyrightable information or ideas that an organization collects and disseminates for a profit to compete unfairly against that organization, or copying a work whose creator has

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