Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A carrying away or off.
- n. In criminal law, the felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited. It may be theft, though the goods be not carried from the house or apartment.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Law) The felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited.
Examples
“That ` s called asportation, and that ` s what we have here, right, Greg Skordas?”
“I think it's more properly what's called if you believe that's what happened, it's a false imprisonment, where you've said I've got you here, because kidnapping generally requires some movement, that you've got to -- "asportation" is the legal term.”
“GRACE: In kidnapping, there has to be an element called "asportation," which is movement, like I put you in my car and drive you away, or it could be as simply as a few inches of forced movement.”
“In DC, for example, asportation is not a requierd element of kidnapping.”
Physical assault, head shaving, a chocolate with a liver center...
“It ` s my understanding, and I ` ve got the Nevada statute right here, kidnapping does include carrying away a person, but that would include even the smallest asportation of pushing them up against a wall.”
“Why is it that the father and the mother are not charged with kidnapping, in that they forced the child, they moved him, that ` s asportation (ph) under kidnapping, and forced him into this little dog cage?”
“GRACE: And you know that under kidnapping, you can move someone an inch and that qualifies under asportation.”
“And then you ` ve got -- a capital case is going to where you ` ve got a child, kidnapping, asportation (ph) of the body ...”
“Indeed, short of getting it upon a trolley or taking 'the steering' down, its asportation could not be compassed.”
“The theft of slaves is a crime; they are a subject-matter of felonious asportation.”
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Official Misconduct
Words describing types of misconduct by those in public office.
malversation, embezzlement, peculation, racketeering, jobbery, misappropriation, defalcation, venality, favouritism, favoritism, nepotism, gerrymandering and 44 more...
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
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rememberers
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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New to me
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after the demarcation
words that sound good to me
knish, Yiddell, comb, hem, Ollivander, degage, paraprosdokian, asportation, facile, gamine
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jmjarmstrong JM is transported by a disreputable asportation mob masquerading as a political party. Jul 25, 2010