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Theft 76
It may now also be Time to take a short
review of the Definitions given by expository Writers,
and to observe with what success they have illustrated
a favourite Aphorism of their own, that to
define is in Law a perilous Undertaking"
Larceny, (for that we may remember is
the Term employed by them) is defined by the
Author of the Commentaries _ "the felonious
taking and carrying away the personal Goods of another.
1st. The word "felonious" is afterwards explained
we have seen how.
Take it before or after the Explanation
it is altogether as edifying and instructive
for the Purpose of characterizing the Offence
as the word "Cabalistical" or any other
uncouth Word that might be substituted
in it's Room.
It indicates, as we have seen, + + v. the Chapter of Nomenclature the
punishment; and it indicates nothing else,
what we learn by means of it is, that Larceny
Identifier: | JB/073/072/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 73.
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