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Provisions 31719
Provisions 31719
Elements of estafa with abuse of confidence Ways of Estafa by obtaining food or accommodation
1.) Money goods, or other personal property at a hotel, etc.
received by the offender in trust for the duty 1.) By obtaining food, accommodation, without
to deliver or return the same. paying, with the intent to defraud
2.) There be misappropriation or conversion of 2.) Obtaining credit in said establishments by the
such money or property by another, or denial use of false pretenses
that he received it. 3.) Abandoning or removing part of his baggage
3.) Misappropriation or conversion or denial is from any of said establishments after
to the prejudice of another obtaining credit without paying therefor.
4.) Demand made by the offended party to the
offender. Elements of estafa by inducing another
1.) Offender induced offended party to sign a
If offender takes property without the document
consent of owner, crime may be theft and 2.) Deceit be employed to make him sign the
not estafa. document
It is different to theft that in theft, the owner 3.) Offended party personally signed the
expects an immediate return of the thing. document
Difference to malversation of funds: estafa is 4.) Prejudice be caused
about private things; malversation is about
public things.