Steal - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: steal Page: 3Pilfer
To steal in small quantities or articles of small value to practice petty theft...
Peculate
To appropriate to ones own use the property of the public to steal public moneys intrusted to ones care to embezzle...
Nim
To take to steal to filch...
Kleptomania
A propensity to steal claimed to be irresistible This does not constitute legal irresponsibility...
Fossick
To search for gold by picking at stone or earth or among roots in isolated spots picking over abandoned workings etc hence to steal gold or auriferous matter from anothers claim...
Filch
To steal or take privily commonly that which is of little value to pilfer...
trespass
trespass [Anglo-French trespas violation of the law, actionable wrong, from Old French, crossing, passage, from trespasser to go across, from tres across + passer to pass] : wrongful conduct causing harm to another: as a : a willful act or active negligence as distinguished from a mere omission of a duty that causes an injury to or invasion of the person, rights, or esp. property of another ;also : the common-law form of action for redress of injuries directly caused by such a wrongful act compare trespass on the case in this entry b : trespass quare clausum fregit in this entry con·tinu·ing trespass : a trespass that continues until the act (as of depriving another of his or her property without the intent to steal it) or instrumentality (as an object placed wrongfully on another's land) causing it is ended or removed criminal trespass : trespass to property that is forbidden by statute and punishable as a crime as distinguished from trespass that creates a cause o...
stolen
stolen past part of steal ...
stole
stole past of steal ...
robbery
robbery pl: -ber·ies [Anglo-French robberie roberie, from Old French, from rober to take something away from a person by force] : the unlawful taking away of personal property from a person by violence or by threat of violence that causes fear : larceny from the person or immediate presence of another by violence or threat of violence and with intent to steal aggravated robbery : robbery committed with aggravating factors (as use of a weapon, infliction of bodily injury, or use of an accomplice) armed robbery : robbery committed by a person armed with a dangerous or deadly weapon simple robbery : robbery that does not involve any aggravating factors ...
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