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What is a defalcation?

What is a defalcation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) The act of cancelling part of a claim by deducting a smaller claim which the claimant owes to the defendant.
  2. embezzlement
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This bulletin discusses the income tax treatment of losses of both a capital and non-capital nature resulting from theft, defalcation or embezzlement from a business by strangers, employees, proprietors and others.
It's important that the firm has Securities Investor Protection Corporation insurance or some other form of insurance should a defalcation occur.
But nothing yet concerning the defalcation and disappearance of Angelo Puma.
What, then, was the cause of griffo's defalcation, and who had inspired him to this signal piece of treachery?
An equally unfortunate but common assumption is that CPLs cover all acts of fraud, theft and defalcation.
Year after year of defalcation, the Liberals failed to deliver to aboriginal people.

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