Asportare

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In old English law. To carry carried away. Asportatus: carried away.

To carry away. Cepit et asportavit. He took and carried away. Words formerly used to charge an unlawful removal of personalty. De bonis asportatis. For goods carried off. The name of an action of trespass for pex'sonalty unlawfully removed, withheld or converted. See Aspoetation. ASPORTATIOlf. Carrying away or removing a thing — a chattel. In larceny there must not only be a taking, but a carrying away. Cepit et asportavit was the old law- Latin expression. A bare removal from the place in which the goods are found is a sufficient asportation.* See ASFORTARE.

/. To carry away. Asportavit: V. De bonis asportatis.

Lat. To carry away. Asportavit; he carried away. Applied m the old writs of trespass, to the taking of inanimate things, as distinguished from ahducers, (q. v.) i^. J\r. ^. 86 A. note. Id. 88 B. Bract fol. 167. See Cepit et asportavit. Asportatus; carried away. See De bonis asportatis,