Thief - Law Dictionary Search Results
Waif or Waift, Weif or Weft
of which every one waives the claim. (2) Goods stolen and waived (bona) or thrown away by the thief in his fight (bona waviata), for fear of being apprehended. These are given to the sovereign by the
Hebberthef
Hebberthef, the privilege of claiming the goods and trial of a thief within a certain liberty.
Advow, or Avow, or Avouch
found was bound to produce the seller to justify the sale, and so on till they found the thief, Old Nat. Br. 43.
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Hand-habend
Hand-habend, a thief caught in the very act, having the thing stolen in his hand
Notorious
universally believed to be true manifest to the world evident usually in an unfavorable sense as a notorious thief a notorious crime or vice
common
or relating to a community at large : public [ defense] b : known to the community [a thief] 2 : belonging to or shared by two or more persons or things or by all members of
kidnap
kid·napped or: kid·naped [-napt] kid·nap·ping or: kid·nap·ing [-na-pi] [probably back-formation from kidnapper, from kid child + obsolete napper thief] : to seize and confine or carry away by force or fraud and often with a demand for
Detection
The act of detecting the laying open what was concealed or hidden discovery as the detection of a thief the detection of fraud forgery or a plot
Drawlatch
A housebreaker or thief
Filcher
One who filches a thief
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