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larceny Law.|ˈlɑːsənɪ|
Also 6 larcenie, larsonie, 8 larciny.
[app. f. AF. larcin (see larcin) + -y, perh. with a recollection of L. latrōcinium.]
The felonious taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another with intent to convert them to the taker's use. Also gen. theft.
Distinction was formerly made between grand larceny and petty larceny, the former being the larceny of property having a value of more, the latter of less, than 12 pence. simple larceny, mixed larceny, or compound larceny (see quot. 1769).
c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. xiii. (1885) 142 There is no man hangyd in Scotlande in vij. yere to gedur ffor robbery. And yet thai ben often tymes hanged ffor larceny [ed. 1714 lacenye, MS. Digby larcerye]. 1581Lambarde Eiren. ii. vii. (1602) 272 All manner of theft, whether it were robberie it selfe, or great or petite Larcenie. 1596Bp. W. Barlow Three Serm. i. 126 Egging men on to Larsonies, Thefts. 1764Burn Poor Laws 137 Picking of pockets, and such other larcenies. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. 229 Larciny..is distinguished by the law into two sorts; the one called simple larciny, or plain theft unaccompanied with any other atrocious circumstance; and mixt or compound larciny, which also includes in it the aggravation of a taking from one's house or person. 1818Scott Rob Roy vi, You are not charged with any petty larceny, or vulgar felony. 1850Blackie æschylus II. 17 This god..wilt thou Not hate, thou, whom his impious larceny Did chiefly injure? 1871Smiles Charac. vi. (1876) 184 It is said that Lord Chatham was the first to set the example of disdaining to govern by petty larceny. 1875Poste Gaius iii. (ed. 2) 462 By English law, to take a man's own goods out of the hands of a bailee, if the taking have the effect of charging the bailee, is larceny. |