Stealing
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
This term imports, ex vi termini, nearly the same as larceny; but in common parlance, it does not always import a felony, as, for example, you stole an acre of my land. In slander cases, it seems that the term stealing takes its complexion from the subject-matter to which it is applied, and will be considered as intended of a felonious stealing, if a felony could have been committed of such subject-matter.
Stark. on Slan. 80; 12 Johns. R. 239; 3 Binn. R. 546; Whart. Dig. vol. i. tit.
Slander, pl.
30, 31.