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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
 
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