Receiving Stolen Goods

The offense of receiving stolen goods, knowing them to have been stolen. (95 N. C. 626; 6 Cox, C. C. 353), and at common law it must have been received from the thief (13 Ired. [N. C] 338); but under the statutes, the rule seems otherwise (38 Fla. 3; 52 Neb. 727). (2) The property must have been, at the time, stolen property in fact and law. 9 Cush. 284. (3) The receiver must know at the time that it was stolen (78 N. C. 491; 60 111. 119), but knowledge of circumstances from which any man of ordinary observation could have known that it was stolen is enough (33 Ala. 434; 96 Iowa, 299). (4) The property must be received with fraudulent intent, but the intent need not be lucri causa, an intent to aid the thief being sufficient. 101 111. 16; 26 Tex. App. 205. An intent to hold for a reward is a fraudulent intent. 37 Ohio St. 63. RECENS SECTA (or INSECUTIO) (Law Lat.)

In old English law. Fresh suit; fresh pursuit; pursuit of a thief immediately after the discovery of the robbery. 1 Bl. Comm. 297. RECEPTUS (Lat.)

In civil law. The name sometimes given to an arbitrator, because he had been received or chosen to settle the differences between the parties. Dig. 4. 8; Code, 2. 56.

The crime of receiving stolen goods with knowledge of their character as such.

The short name usually given to the offense of receiving any property with the knowledge that it has bsen feloniously or unlawfully stolen, taken, extorted, obtained, embezzled, or disposed of. Sweet.