---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 921"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "921"
heading: "Art. 121. Larceny and wrongful appropriation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/921"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice"
  - "Subchapter X — Punitive Articles"
---

# §921. Art. 121. Larceny and wrongful appropriation

- (a) Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who wrongfully takes, obtains, or withholds, by any means, from the possession of the owner or of any other [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) any money, personal property, or article of value of any kind—
  - (1) with intent permanently to deprive or defraud another [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) of the use and benefit of property or to appropriate it to his own use or the use of any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) other than the owner, steals that property and is guilty of larceny; or
  - (2) with intent temporarily to deprive or defraud another [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) of the use and benefit of property or to appropriate it to his own use or the use of any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) other than the owner, is guilty of wrongful appropriation.
- (b) Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) found guilty of larceny or wrongful appropriation shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 73.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 921(a)<br>921(b) | 50:715(a).<br>50:715(b). | May 5, 1950, ch. 169, § 1 (Art. 121), 64 Stat. 140. |

In subsection (a), the words “whatever” and “true” are omitted as surplusage. The word “it” is substituted for the words “the same” in clauses (1) and (2).