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Robber

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

One who commits a robbery; one who feloniously and forcibly takes goods or money to any value from the person of another by violence or putting him in fear.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

One guilty of robbery.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

One who commits a robbery. One who feloniously and forcibly takes goods or money to any value from the person of another by violence or putting him in fear.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

One who commits a robbsry. The term is not In law synonymous with "thief," but applies only to one who steals with force or open violence. See De Rothschild v. Royal Mall Steam Packet Co., 7 Exch. 742; The Manitoba (D. C.) 104 Fed. 151.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

I. fr. To rob. Robbans: robbing. Kobbe: robbed.