Wrongful in Legal Terms (Loss & Gain)

Section 23 of the Indian Penal Code: Provision of wrongful gain or wrongful loss.

Wrongful gain: It is gain by unlawful means of property to which the person gaining is not legally entitled.

Wrongful loss: It is loss by unlawful means of property to which person losing it is legally entitled.

For Illustration: If X takes away Y’s watch out of Y’s possession, without Y’s consent with intention of keeping it, he cause, “Wrongful Loss” to Y and Wrongful Gain to himself.*

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* Book referred: Indian Penal Code by K.D. Gaur