Stealing

This term imports, ex vi termini, nearly the same as larceny; but in common parlance it does not always import a felony.

People v. Robertson, 3 Wheel. Cr. Cas. (N. Y.) 183.

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; Dexter v. Taber, 12 Johns. (N. Y.) 239; Wallis v. Mease, 3 Binn. ( Pa.) 546. The word steal is held synonymous with theft.

Carr v. State, 9 Tex. App. 463. See Young v. State, 12 Tex. App. 614. L. R. 7 Q. B. 569. See Western Ins. Co. v. Cropper, 32 Pa. 352, 75 Am. Dec' 561.

The owner of a steamboat is not an innkeeper so as to be liable for personal property stolen from a passenger.

Clark v. Burns, 118 Mass. 275, 19 Am. Rep. 456.

Undertaking to carry a passenger in the steerage of a steamship from one ocean port to another includes the furnishing of such passenger with a berth, unless it was understood beforehand that he was to make the voyage without it; The Oriflamme, 3 Sawy. 397, Fed. Cas. No. 10,572; and see Patterson v. Steamship Co., 140 N. C. 412, 53 S. E. 224, 5 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1012, 111 Am. St Rep. 848. See Common* Carrier; Sleeping-Car; Ship; Vessel.