Stouthrief
Defined in 1 dictionary — Abbott (1879)
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Is a term in Scotch law, signifying a species of robbery. The distinction between the offences of robbery and stouthrief has never been very clearly defined, and, originally, they probably meant the same thing; but, in modem practice, the word stouthrief is confined to cases where the inhabitants of a house are attacked by thieves, and their resistance is quelled by violence actually inflicted, or reasonably dreaded; and to cases of attacks by mobs, in which property is violently carried off, and peaceable persons alarmed. Macdonald.