Contrectatio

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In civil law. The removal of a thing from its place, amounting to a theft. The offense is purged by a restoration of the thing taken. Bowyer, Comm. 268. CONTRECTATIO REI ALIENAE ANIMO furandi, est furtum. The touching or removing of another's property, with an intention of stealing, is theft. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 132.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In the civil and old English law. Touching; handling; meddling. The act of removing a thing from its place in such a manner that, it the thing be not restored, it wlll amount to theft Contrectatio rei alienae, animo furandi, est furtum. Jenk. Cent. 132. The touching or removing of another's property, with an intention of stealing, is theft

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

I. A handling or meddling with; the improper or unauthorized use of a thing. Contrectatio rel alienge, animo farandi, est fnrtum: the touching of another's property with intent to steal is thefb

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In the civil and old eT Englishlaw. Touching; handling; meddling. The act of removing a thing from its plaee in such a manner that, if the thing be not restored, it will amount to theft. Contrectatio rei alienz, animo furan- an di, est furtum. Jenk. Cent. 132. The touching or removing of another’s property, with an intention of stealing, is theft.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Lat. A handling or meddling with; the improper or unauthorized use of a thing. This term is employed in the civil law in the definition of theft, (furtum.) Inst. 4. 1. 1, 6, 8. See Furium. Bracton has borrowed it from this source, but in many copies of that author it is misprinted contractatio, (fol. 150 b;) which has sometimes occasioned difliculty in interpreting the passage in which it occurs. Dunlap, arg. 5 Mason's R, 640.