Pilfer
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889), Abbott (1879)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
To steal. To charge another with pilfering is to charge him with stealing and is slander; Becket v. Sterrett, 4 Blackf. (Ind.) 499.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
In its popular sense, to steal.* See Hook., PILLORY. A contrivance for inflicting punishment by exposing the offender to public disgrace. a frame of wood erected on a post or posts, with movable boards containing holes through which the head and hands were put. First appointed for fraudulent bakers and such as used false weights. In use in the American colonies; now abolished, except in Delaware.** The punishment of standing in the pillory shall not be inflicted." Hoy, 118 m. 534 (1886); 26 Am. Law Reg. 168-73 (1887), oases; 24 Cent. Law J. 515-18 (1887), cases; 20.\m. Law Rev. 80-92(1836), cases; 4 Kan. Law J. 145 (1886)
— Ohio Law Bulletin. As to death ot patient by accident, see 21 Cent. Law J. 267-69 (1886), cases. > Roosa V. Boston Loan Co., 132 Mass. 439 (1882). 2 Madden v. Blain, 66 Ga. 49 (1880). ' Landon v. Humphrey, 9 Conn. 209, 215 (1832). « Becket v. Sterrett, 4 Blackt. *o00 (1838). « See Rex v. Beardmore, 2 Burr. »792 (1859); 1 Chitty, Cr. L. 797; 4 Steph. Com. 443, note; 1 Mc Masters, By 56 Geo. in (1816), abolished in all cases except perjury; and by 7 'Will. TV (1837), abolislied absolutely in general terms without exception.'
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
To pilfer, in the plain and popular sense, means to steal. To charge another with pilfering is to charge him with stealing, and is slander. Becket v. Sterrett, 4 Black/. 499.