Steal - Law Dictionary Search Results
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steal stole sto·len steal·ing [Old English stelan] : to take or appropriate without right or consent and with intent to keep or make use of see also robbery, theft ...
pilfer
pilfer : to steal esp. in small amounts and often again and again [accused of ing from passenger luggage] vt : to steal or steal from esp. in small quantities [found ing goods from a store he was guarding] pil·fer·age [pil-fə-rij] n ...
shoplift
shoplift : to steal displayed goods from a store vt : to steal (displayed goods) from a store ...
Birds
Birds. Larceny may be committed at Common Law of domestic fowls, as hens, ducks, geese, etc. (1 Hale, PC 511), and of tame pigeons, though unconfined, Reg. v. Cheafor, (1851) 2 Den CCR 361, and of tame pheasants, Reg. v. Head, (1857) 1 F&F 350; or partridges, Reg. v. Shickle, (1868) LR 1 CCR 158. The (English) Larceny Act, 1861, ss. 21-23, provides, that whoever shall steal, or kill with intent to steal, birds ordinarily kept in a state of confinement, or for any domestic purposes, not being the subject of larceny at Common Law, or shall be in possession of any such bird, or the plumage thereof, knowing the same to have been stolen, shall be punishable on summary conviction by fine or imprisonment.As to unlawfully and wilfully killing or wounding house doves or pigeons under circumstances not amounting to larceny at Common Law, see (English) Larceny Act, 1861, s. 23, and Malicious Damage Act, 1861, s. 41. See also the (English) Poultry Act, 1911, and the Protection of Animals Act, 1911...
Kleptomania
Kleptomania [fr., Gk., to steal; and, frenzy], insanity in the form of an irresistible propensity to steal. Consult Taylor's Med. Jur....
Larceny
Larceny [fr. larcin, Fr.; latrocinium, Lat.], contracted from latrociny, the unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal, with intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same. Larceny is a felony, and is either simple or accompanied with circumstances of aggravation:(1) Simple larceny at Common Law, or plain theft. To constitute the offence there must be an unlawful taking, which implies that the goods must pass from the possession of a true owner (including one who has a qualified property only in the goods, as a bailee), and without his consent; where there is, then, no change of possession, or a change of it by consent, or a change from the possession of a person without title to that of the true owner, there cannot be a larceny. As to the difference between property parted with by the owner of his own free will, however fradulently influenced, in other words, between property 'entrusted' and 'possession by a trick,' see Oppenheimer v. Frazer, (1907) 2 KB 50, and Lake v. S...
Fer' natur', animals
Fer' natur', animals. Beasts and birds of a wild disposition, such as deer, hares, coneys in a warren, pheasants, partridges, etc., as distingui-shed from those domit' natur', or tame, such as horses, sheep, poultry, etc. They are not whilst living the subjects of absolute property, so that they cannot be the subject of larceny, nor are they liable to distress for rent. But a man may acquire a qualified property in them, either (1) Per industriam, by his reclaiming and making them tame by art and industry, or by so confining them that they cannot escape, e.g., deer in a park, hares or rabbits in an enclosed warren, etc. The property in them only continues so long as they remain in a man's actual possession, but ceases if they regain their liberty, unless they have animus revertendi, as in the case of pigeons, tame hawks, etc. (2) Ratione impotenti', on account of their inability, as when birds, coneys, etc., make their nests or burrows on a mans' land, then he has a qualified property ...
Sneak
To creep or steal away or about privately to come or go meanly as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen as to sneak away from company...
Abduction
Abduction: (1) The forcible or fradulent taking away of a woman. It is felony:-(a) Where any person from motives of lucre takes away or detains any woman who has any interest in any property (even a presumptive expectation) with intent to marry or carnally know her or to cause her to be married or carnally known. (b) Where any person fradulently allures, takes away or detains with like intent such a woman under 21 out of the possession and against the will of her parent or other person having the lawful care of her. In either of these two cases a person convicted is incapable of taking any estate or interest in the woman's property, (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861. (c) Where any person by force takes away or detains any woman being of age with like intent (Ib. s. 54). It is a misdemeanour:-(a) Where any person takes away an unmarried girl under 16 out of the possession and against the will of her parent or other person having lawful charge of her (Ib. s. 55). A bona fid...
Cattle
Cattle [derived by Skinner, Menage, and Spelman fr. Capitalia, quac aspr copr ad caput pertinent, personal goods; in which sense Chttels is yet used. Mandeville uses Catele for price], beasts of pasture, either wild or domestic.The term, though often limited to horned domestic animals, may include (see Wright v. Pearson, LR 4 QB 582) horses and sheep; and also pigs and asses, R. v. Chapple, Russ & Ry. 77; R. v. Whitney, 1 Mood. 3.Means bulls, cows, steers, heifers and calves, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 483, p. 246 [Animal Health Act, 1981, s. 89(1) (UK)]As to injury to cattle by a dog, see Dogs Act, 1906, in which, by s. 7, 'cattle' includes 'horses, mules, asses, goats and swine.' See Dog.As to larceny of cattle, see Larceny Act, 1916, s. 3, and as to killing cattle, etc., with intent to steal the carcase, skin, or any part of the animal killed, see s. 4.As to the malicious wounding of cattle, see (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 40 and 41.As to the prevention o...
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