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.