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THEFT.

Larceny, or that the Thing is under any intrinsic Incapacity
of becoming the Subject of an Act of that Nature, but only
that if it is stolen, as fairly stolen (if it may be allowed
the Expression) as any Thing whatever can be, [still] the
Punishment for it is not of that Kind which, where -so ever
it has originally attached by the Common Law bestoweds on the Act that
Denomination.

In a Word the Import of the Term Theft with
it's Conjugates above mentioned is coextensive with
the Moral Idea: Larceny with the Legal.

This Distinction is far from being steadily
observed: Writers every now & then stretching the
Import of the Word Larceny to a Synonimity with
Theft; by which means hence it is that Things are brought to that
pass, that now persons discoursing of a proposed Act
might say, the one that it was, the other that it was
not Larceny, both having the same Meaning. — It is
in Order to avoid this Confusion that I give this Notice
once for all, that if ever I use this technical Term in my
own person I use it not in Concurrence with, but in
Contradistinction to the other.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	073	Main Headings	law in general
Folio number	054	Info in main headings field	theft
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f18
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::propatria [britannia motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	23894
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