larceny

IPA: ɫˈɑrsʌni

(law, uncountable) The unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently.
(law, countable) A larcenous act attributable to an individual.

Examples of "larceny" in Sentences

I said, "Well, I'm a scout, and I don't call larceny grand."
He was convicted instead of grand larceny, that is, of stealing his bonuses, which were certainly oversized.
Stealing without administering fear is called larceny, stealing by administering fear is called robbery, the keyword here is “steal.”
Judge Rafalsky held, for instance, that if a crime had been committed at all, it was not that known as larceny, and he went on to add:
Camelopards, he declared that such a larceny was a moral impossibility, because he had never seen one such animal in the whole course of his life.
When Stores could not, they were prone to steal vegetables, melons and poultry from the convicts, a transgression Ross punished as severely as if the larceny were the other way around.
_But besides simple larceny, which is divided into grand and petty, there is a mixed larceny which has a greater degree of guilt in it, as being a taking from the person of a man or from his house.
For example, an officer who wanted to hide a grand larceny, which is counted as an index crime and as such would affect the city's crime rate, could classify the crime as a petite larceny, a statistic that is not counted as part of the official crime rate.