Contrectatio
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In the civil and old English law. Touching; handling; meddling. The act of removing a thing from its place in such a manner that, it the thing be not restored, it wlll amount to theft Contrectatio rei alienae, animo furandi, est furtum.
Jenk. Cent. 132.
The touching or removing of another's property, with an intention of stealing, is theft