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• n., 1. A wrong committed when one person converts to personal use, or wrongfully deprives a second person of the use and possession of that second person’s goods. [The Dictionary of Canadian Law, 3rd ed. c2004]
• n., 1. The act of changing from one form to another; the process of being exchanged. 2… [Black’s Law Dictionary, 8th ed. c2004]
• n., In criminal and tort law, the intentional deprivation of another of the benefit and use of his property, without his authorization or lawful justification, by possessing or disposing of the property as if it were one’s own or by an act (such as damaging or destroying it) that interferes with or is inconsistent with the owner’s right to sue and possess the property. [Webster’s New World Law Dictionary. c2006]
• n., The process of transforming a digital document or other digital object from one format, or format version, to another one. See also: backward compatibility; preservation strategy; software re-engineering; transformative migration; upgrade [v.].