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THEFT
which is not larceny, but larceny and something
more. Robbers and Burglarers may be, and often
are, indicated only of the latter crime
It had been well if instead of losing his
labour in these unnecessary Distinctions, he had
bestowed it on the discriminating of the offence from
the six species ofacts with which by the epithet
fraudulent it is expressly confounded—1 embezzlement; 2 Personation; (at that time
offences only in a few cases;) 3 flase pretences;
a very questionable crime at that time, if any
except in the instance of false tokens; 4 false
circulation; 5 false weights and measures; 6
forgery
The author of the commentaries has
therefore very properlyin his Definition cut off these redundant
clauses. if the other
The Definition of the Civil Law, from
which this epithet was taken is, "Fraudulenta Contrectatio lucii faciendi Gratia, vel ipsius
Rei, vel etiam usus esuspossepionisve"#
Identifier: | JB/073/074/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 73. |
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073 |
law in general |
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074 |
theft |
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002 |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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recto |
f84 / f86 |
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