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Asportation

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[L. Lat. asportatio, from asportare, to carry away.] The carlying away of goods; one of the circumstances requisite to constitute the offence of larceny.

4 Bl. Com. 231.

A bare removal by the thief from the place in which he found the goods, though he does not quite make off with them, is a sufficient asportation, or carrying away. Id. ibid. A canying quite away.

1 Stra. 634.