THEFT

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.

2.
n.

The thing stolen. [R.] If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, . . . he shall restore double. Ex. xxii. 4.


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