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English

Noun

  1. The act of steal|stealing property.


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Theft \Theft\ (th[e^]ft), n. [OE. thefte, AS.
[thorn]i['e]f[eth]e, [thorn][=y]f[eth]e, [thorn]e['o]f[eth]e.
See Thief.]
1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious
taking and removing of personal property, with an intent
to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
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Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the
owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious;
every part of the property stolen must be removed,
however slightly, from its former position; and it must
be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of
the thief. See Larceny, and the Note under Robbery.
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2. The thing stolen. [R.]
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If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, .
. . he shall restore double. --Ex. xxii. 4.
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WordNet theft
n : the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the
thieving is awful at Kennedy International" [syn: larceny,
thievery, thieving, stealing]
Moby Dictionary
acquisition , appropriation , boosting , burglary , caper , claiming ,
embezzlement , filch , filching , grab , heist , hijacking , job ,
larceny , lift , lifting , pilferage , pilfering , pinch , pinching ,
possession , purloining , reception , rip-off , robbery , robbing ,
score , shoplifting , snitching , steal , stealage , stealing , swiping ,
taking , taking away , taking possession , thievery , thieving ,
touch


Theft Punished by restitution, the proportions of which are noted in 2 Sam. 12:6. If the thief could not pay the fine, he was to be sold to a Hebrew master till he could pay (Ex. 22:1-4). A night-thief might be smitten till he died, and there would be no blood-guiltiness for him (22:2). A man-stealer was to be put to death (21:16). All theft is forbidden (Ex. 20:15; 21:16; Lev. 19:11; Deut. 5:19; 24:7; Ps. 50:18; Zech. 5:3; Matt. 19:18; Rom. 13:9; Eph. 4:28; 1 Pet. 4:15).
THEFT, crimes. This word is sometimes used as synonymous with larceny, (q.v.) but it is not so technical. Ayliffe's Pand. 581 2 Swift's Dig. 309. 2. In the Scotch law, this is a proper and technical word, and signifies the secret and felonious abstraction of the property of another for sake of lucre, without his consent. Alison, Princ. Cr. Law of Scotl. 250.
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