Look up: larceny

1. larceny
   [n] - the act of taking something from someone unlawfully
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2. larceny
   In the USA, and formerly in the UK, theft, the taking of personal property without consent and with the intention of permanently depriving the owner of it. In the UK until 1827 larceny was divided...
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3. Larceny
   Lar'ce·ny noun ; plural Larcenies . [ French larcin , Middle English larrecin , Latin latrocinium , from latro robber, mercenary, hired servant; confer Greek hired servant. Confer Latrociny .] (Law...
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4. larceny
   theft noun the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; `the thieving is awful at Kennedy International`
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5. Larceny
   • (n.) The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. Embezzlement.
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6. larceny
   in criminal law, the trespassory taking and carrying away of personal goods from the possession of another with intent to steal. Larceny is one of ... [3 related articles]
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7. larceny
   larceny 1. The unlawful taking and removing of another's personal property with the intent of permanently depriving the owner; theft. 2. The felonious taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another with intent to convert them to the taker's use. 3. Obtaining possession of property by frau...
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8. larceny
   larceny, in law, the unlawful taking and carrying away of the property of another, with intent to deprive the owner of its use or to appropriate it to the use of the perpetrator or of someone else. It is usually distinguished from embezzlement and false pretenses in that the actual taking of the pro...
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9. Larceny
   Illegal taking and carrying away of personal property belonging to another with the purpose of depriving the owner of its possession. The wrongful and fraudulent taking and carrying away by one person of the mere personal goods of another from any place, with a felonious intent to convert them to th...
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10. Larceny
    (n) Larceny is the misappropriation of the goods or assets of another person with an intention to use them as his own. Larceny is a crime punishable and are classified as grand and petty Larceny based on the value of the property so misappropriated.
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11. larceny
    n. the crime of taking the goods of another person without permission (usually secretly), with the intent of keeping them. It is one form of theft. Some states differentiate between grand larceny and petty larceny based on the value of the stolen goods. Grand larceny is a felony with a state prison ...
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12. Larceny
    `Larceny` is a crime involving the wrongful acquisition of the personal property of another person. It was an offence under the common law of England and became an offence in jurisdictions which incorporated the common law of England into their own law. It has been abolished in England and Wales, No...
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13. Larceny
    (Scheme implementation) The `Larceny Project` is a set of computer programming languages, specifically Scheme implementations, using the Twobit optimizing Scheme compiler. `Larceny` is the back-end which compiles to native x86 or SPARC code, `Petit Larceny` is a Scheme to C compiler and `Comm...
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