Larceny

In criminal law. The wrongful and fraudulent taking and earrying away by one person of the mere personal goods of another from any place, with a fe- Jonious intent to convert them to his (the taker’s) use, and make them his property, without the consent of the owner, 2 East, P. C. 553; 4 Wash. C, C. 700. The felonious taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another.

4 Bl. Comm. 229.

The unlawtui taking and carrying away of things personal, with intent to deprive the right owner of the same.

4 Steph. Comm. 152.

The felonious taking the property of another, without his consent and against his will, with intent to convert it to the use of the taker.

2 Leach, 1089.

The taking and removing, by trespass, of personal property which the trespasser knows to belong either generaily or specially to another, with the intent to deprive such owner of his ownership therein; and, perhaps it which the decisions ara not harmonious.

2 Bish. Crim. Law, §§ 757, 758.

Larceny is the taking of personal property, aceomplished by frand or stealth, and witn intent to deprive another thereof.

Pen. Code Dak. § 580.

Larceny is the felonious stealing, taking, carry- {ug, leading, or driving away the personal property of another.

Pen. Code Cal § 454.

Larceny is sometimes divided into “simple” and “compound” or “mixed” larceny; the former term applying to cases of simple theft; the latter to cases of stealing attended with some recognized circumstances of aggravation, such as larceny from aship or wharf, or from a dwelling-house in the day-time, or from the person. Lareeny was also divided into “grand” and “petit” lareeny, the distinction turning on an arbitrary division of the value of the goods stolen. This division is now abolished in England (7 & 8 Geo. [V.c. 29, § 2) and in many of the United States, but still subsists in some jurisdictions. For the distinction between “larceny” and “burgiary,” “extortion,” “false pretenses, ” and “robbery,” see those titles.