Carrying Away

See "Asportation."

Such a removal or taking into possession of personal property as is required in order to constitute the crime of larceny. The words "did take and carry away" are a translation of the words cepit et asportavit,' which were used in indictments when legal processes and records were in the Latin language. But no single word in our language expresses the meaning of asportavit. Hence the word "away," or some other word, must be subjoined to the word "carry," to modify its general signification and give It a special and distinctive meaning. Com. v. Adams, 7 Gray (Mass.) 45. Any removal, however right, of the entire article, which is not attached either to the soil or to any other thing not removed, is sufficient; 2 Bish. Cr. Law § 699; 1 Dearsl. 421; State v. Wilson, 1 N. J. L. 439, 1 Am. Dec. 216. Thus, to snatch a diamond from a lady's ear, which is instantly dropped among the curls of her heir; 1 Leach 320; to remove sheets from a bed and carry them into an adjoining room; 1 Leach 222, n.; to take plate from a trunk, and lay it on the floor with intent to carry it away; id; to remove a package from one part of a wagon to another, with a view to steal it; 1 Leach 236; have respectively been holden to be felonies. But nothing less than such a severance will be sufficient; 2 East, PI. Cr. 556; 1 Ry. & M. 14; 4 Bla. Com. 231; 2 Russ. Cr. 96; Clarke, Cr. L. 242, 260.

In criminal law. The act of removal or asportation, by which the crime of larceny is completed, aud which is essential to constitute it. CARRYING AWAY INFANT FE-