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(영문) 대법원 1991. 10. 22. 선고 91도1397 판결

[횡령][집39(4)형,734;공1991.12.15.(910),2868]

Main Issues

In case where the land under title trust is cultivated by the trustee as farmland not for the land subject to purchase by the government at the time of the enforcement of the Farmland Reform Act, whether the trustee is in the status of the custodian for the truster (negative)

Summary of Judgment

If the land under title trust is cultivated by the trustee as farmland subject to the same Act at the time when the Farmland Reform Act enters into force, and this was not an overland excluded from the purchase object of the government, the truster is not entitled to file a claim for the return of the land (delivery or ownership transfer registration) even if the trust contract is terminated, and as a result, the title trust relationship between the truster and the trustee is extinguished, the trustee acquires full ownership, and the trustee is not in the position of the custodian for the truster.

[Reference Provisions]

Article 355(1) of the Criminal Act, Article 11 subparag. 11, and Article 27 of the Farmland Reform Act

Reference Cases

Supreme Court Decision 90Da4259, 90Meu2322 Decided November 13, 1990 (Gong1991, 66)

Escopics

Defendant

upper and high-ranking persons

Defendant

Defense Counsel

Attorneys Oh Jeong-soo et al., Counsel for the defendant-appellant

Judgment of the lower court

Daegu District Court Decision 91No213 delivered on May 16, 1991

Text

The judgment below is reversed, and the case is remanded to the Daegu District Court Panel Division.

Reasons

We examine the grounds of appeal.

The supplemental appellate brief is not timely filed, so it is deemed to the extent of supplement in case of supplemental appellate brief.

1. Examining records;

A. The court of first instance rejected the Defendant’s registration of ownership transfer on the ground that the Defendant was a member of the Do-si Kim Jong-dong Kim Jong-si’s 960-2 forest and 105-2 of the same 960-dong Kim Jong-si, Kim Jong-si’s 1931 on May 14, 1931. When Nonindicted 1 and his father died, the court of first instance completed the registration of inheritance before the Defendant on October 6, 1972, on the ground that the Defendant’s above 161-dong 952, 938-1, 954-1, 954-dong 91-dong 91, 959, 938-2, 938-2, 146 of the above 97-dong 197, on the ground that it was difficult for the Defendant to acquire the above 3-party’s property from the above 197-party 1’s father’s title trust.

2. However, in examining the records, the above land appears to have been subject to the Farmland Reform Act as at June 21, 1949 when the Farmland Reform Act was enforced (see Supreme Court Decision 249-260, Jun. 27, 195; Supreme Court Decision 249-260, Nov. 13, 1990; 9Da42529, Nov. 13, 1990; 9Da2329, Feb. 25, 192, 199). If the above land was cultivated as farmland as a trustee, and it was not against the intention of Article 11 subparagraph 1 and Article 27 of the Farmland Reform Act, the truster cannot file a claim for the return of the land (delivery or transfer of ownership) even if the trust contract was terminated (see, e.g., Supreme Court Decision 200Da42892, Nov. 27, 195; 200Da22923, Feb. 23, 2019).

3. Therefore, the court below should first determine whether the above land was farmland subject to the farmland law at the time of the enforcement of the Farmland Reform Act, and if the farmland subject to the Farmland Reform Act was farmland subject to the farmland subject to the farmland reform Act, whether the farmer was the farmer, and whether the defendant was the person in custody of another's property. Even if the defendant comprehensively succeeded to the status of the trustee, in the case of this case where the defendant denies the title trust relationship, even if the defendant was aware of the above title trust relation at the time of disposal, or if he was aware that he was the custodian, it should determine whether the defendant was the criminal intent of embezzlement by examining whether the above title trust relation was known at the time of disposal, or whether the defendant was aware that he had the custodian's status at the time of disposal. Thus, the court below did not reach this point of view and did not err in the misapprehension of legal principles of farmland Reform Act and embezzlement, which affected the deliberation.

Therefore, the judgment of the court below is reversed, and the case is remanded to the court below. It is so decided as per Disposition by the assent of all participating Justices.

Justices Kim Jong-soo (Presiding Justice)