212Appropriation of property

212 Appropriation of property (1) For this Division, any assumption of the rights of an owner to ownership, possession or control of property, without the consent of a person to whom the property belongs, is an appropriation of the (2) If a person has come by property (innocently or not) without committing the offence of theft, subsection (1) applies to any later assumption of those rights without consent by keeping or dealing with it as owner. (3) If property is, or purports to be, transferred or given to a person acting in good faith, a later assumption by the person of rights the person believed the person was acquiring is not an appropriation of the property because of any defect in the transferor's title. Criminal Code Act 1983 209