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affecting the pecuniary interests of Government, or to
make, authenticate, or keep any document relating to the
pecuniary interests of Government, or to prevent the
infraction of any law for the protection of the pecuniary
interests of Government, and every officer in the service or
pay of Government, or remunerated by fees or commission
for the performance of any public duty;
(j)
every officer whose duty it is, as such officer, to take,
receive, keep or expend any property, to make any survey
or assessment, or to levy any rate or tax for any secular
common purpose of any village, town or district, or to
make, authenticate or keep any document for the
ascertaining of the rights of the people of any village, town
or district.
Explanation 1—Persons falling under any of the above descriptions are
public servants, whether appointed by the Government or not.
Explanation 2—Wherever the words “public servant” occur, they shall be
understood of every person who is in actual possession of the situation of a
public servant, whatever legal defect there may be in his right to hold that
situation.
“Movable property”
22. The words “movable property” are intended to include corporeal
property of every description, except land and things attached to the
earth, or permanently fastened to anything which is attached to the
earth.
ILLUSTRATION
Writings, relating to real or personal property or rights, are movable property.
“Wrongful gain” and “wrongful loss”
23. “Wrongful gain” is gain by unlawful means of property to which
the person gaining is not legally entitled.