Based on the California statute, identify and explain the influence of the common law and the MPC:

California Penal Code, 484-502.9:

(a) Every person who shall feloniously steal, take, carry, lead, or drive away the personal property of another, or who shall fraudulently appropriate property which has been entrusted to him or her, or who shall knowingly and designedly, by any false or fraudulent representation or pretense, defraud any other person of money, labor or real or personal property, or who causes or procures others to report falsely of his or her wealth or mercantile character and by thus imposing upon any person, obtains credit and thereby fraudulently gets or obtains possession of money, or property or obtains the labor or service of another, is guilty of theft.

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Influence of Common Law The California Penal Code section 4845029 reflects the influence of common law principles particularly in defining the offense ... View the full answer