What is the difference between fraudulent misrepresentation and larceny?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Dawson v. Superior Court In and For Alameda County, 138 Cal.App.2d 685, 292 P.2d 574 (Cal. App. 1956):
In People v. Howes, 99 Cal.App.2d 808, 222 P.2d 969, where the thefts were committed by larceny, this court reviewed the situation in California concerning the problem of whether a series of thefts constitute one offense or a series of offenses, and pointed out that generally there has been a distinction between thefts accomplished by means of false representations and those accomplished by larceny by trick or device or by embezzlement.
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