Ransom v

State, 22 Conn. *166 (18S3), Storrs, J. 2 Commonwealth o. Adaips, 7 Gray, 44 (1666), Metcalf, J. See also State v. South, 28 N. J. L. 39-30 (1859), cases. Green, C. J.; State v. Wingo, 89 Ind.' 206 (1883): 4 Cr. Law M. 661, 604-69 (1883), cases; 70 Ala. 9; 62 Cal. 141; 66 Ga. 193-94; 94 N. Y. 90, 95; 31 Hun, 58; 1 Mc All. 196; 5 Cranch, C. C. 493; 3 Bish. Cr. L. § 757. « 4 Bl. Com. 229, 239; 59 Cal. 391. <■ 2 Bish. Cr. Law, %% 757-58, cases. » 4 Bl. Com. 230; 59 Miss. 279; 62 Wis. 63. Formerly, also, bonds, bills, notes, and otber evidences of debt, having no intrinsic value and not importing property in the possession of the holder, were not subjects ot larceny. " Property " includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt.* Nor, at common law, are animals, at their natural liberty and unreclaimed, which are unfit for food, as, dogs; for these a civil action for damages may be had.^ Obtaining possession of personalty by fraud, with Intent to convert the same to one's own use, the owner intending to part with the possession only, is larceny.' See Crime; Decoy; Indictment; Lucrum; Pretenses, False; Robbery. IiABGE. See At Large; Enlarge; Great; Gross. IiASCIVIOUS.-' Lustful; wanton; lewd. Any wanton act between persons of different sexes, who are not inter-married, originating in lustful passion, and not otherwise punished as a crime against chastity or public decency, is called " lascivious carriage." May also include an indecent act against the will of another.' To sustain an indictment under the Virginia act of 1878, forbidding lascivious cohabitation, the evidence must establish that the parties, not being married, lewdly and lasciviously associated and cohabited, that is, hved together in the same house and as man and wife live together.' See Lewd; Morals.

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