Plunder

n. Personal property belonging to an enemy, captured and appropriated on land; booty. Also the act of seizing snch property. See Booty; Prize. v. . The most common meaning of the term "to plunder" is to take property from persons or places by open force, and this may be in course of a lawful war or by uniawful hostility, as in the case of pirates or banditti. But in another and very common meaning, though in some degree figurative, it is used to express the idea of taking property from a person or place, without just right, but not expressing the nature or quuiity of the wrong done.

Carter v. Andrews, 16 Pick. (Mass.) 9; U. S. v. Stone (C. C.) 8 Fed. 246; U. S. v. Pitman. 27 Fed. Cas. 540.