Rapine

The felonious taking of another man’s personal property, openly and by violence, against his will. The civilians define rapine to be the taking with violence the movable property of another, with the fraudulent intent to appropriate it to one’s own use. Lcq. El. Dr. Rom. § 1071. RAPPORT A SUCCESSION (Fr.; similar to hotchpot). In Louisiana. The reunion to the mass of the succession of the things given by the deceased ancestor to his heir, in order that the whole may be divided among the co-heirs. The obligation to make the rapport has a triple foundation. First, it is to be presumed that the deceased intended, in making an advancement, to give only a portion of the inheritance. 8ccond f it establishes the equality of a division, at least, with regard to the children of the same parent, who all have an equal right to the succession. Third, it preserves in families that harmony which is always disturbed by unjust favors to one who has only an equal right Dalloz, Diet See Advancement; Collation; Hotchpot.