larceny
IPA: ɫˈɑrsʌni
noun
- (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.
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Examples of "larceny" in Sentences
- The most common crime reported was larceny.
- As a result, the Court overturned the larceny conviction.
- If the defendant merely had custody, the crime is larceny.
- The term theft is sometimes used synonymously with larceny.
- In 1987, Donovan was tried and acquitted of larceny charges.
- I said, "Well, I'm a scout, and I don't call larceny grand."
- Gilroy was arrested in 1940 on charges of larceny of machinery.
- The modern spelling is petty larceny for the misdemeanor level.
- Larceny applies only to the stealing of tangible personal property.
- He was acquitted of larceny, but found guilty on the burglary count.
- In 1913 at the age of twelve, he was arrested on a charge of larceny.
- 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.