Contrectatio
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
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.