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Larceny is that sort of taking and carrying
away [of the personal goods of another] which
is punished with Forfeiture, and so forth — But
the very Thing which is required when a Definition
is asked for, and which it is the Use of a
Definition, when it has any, to explain, is,
what it is which is to be so punished? What is
wanted is a Mark whereby to distinguish
such Cases wherein the taking and carrying
away and so forth is punished with the
Punishment called Felony from such wherein
it is not so. If in that which in the former
Definition it has been attempted to be given.
It is that which we are here left utterly to
seek
Turned back in a Circle, instead of the
Definition sought for, you have still put upon
you in another Dress the Thing to be defined —
you ask for a Fish; you are presented with a Serpent. 4. Comm. p.231
Then sometimes to mend the Matter comes in
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