Kidnapping
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The forcible abduction or stealing away of a man, woman, or ohild from their own country, and sending them into another.
4 Bl. Comm. 219.
Statutory definitions are somewhat different. Actual force is not necessary; fraud or intimidation may suffice.
88 N. Y. 182.
But the taking must be against the will of the person, and consent is a defense unless the person was incapable of consenting (8 N. H. 550; 25 N. Y. 272), or the consent was obtained by fraud (20 111, 315),