Indian Penal Code, 1860
23.
"Wrongful gain"
"Wrongful
gain" is gain by unlawful means of property which the person gaining is
not legally entitled.
"Wrongful
loss"- "Wrongful loss" is the loss by unlawful means of property
to which the person losing it is legally entitled.
Gaining wrongfully,
losing wrongfully- A person is said to gain wrongfully when such person retains
wrongfully, as well as when such person acquires wrongfully. A person is said
to lose wrongfully when such person is wrongfully kept out of any property as
well as when such person is wrongfully deprived of property.