larceny

• If the American taxpayer is going to be on the hook for all of their larceny, the least they could do is to contribute a percentage of their profits to the very people who will have to try and save them. —  blog maverick
• But besides simple larceny, which is divided into grand and petty, there is a mixed larceny which has a greater degree of guilt in it, as being a taking from the person of a man or from his house. —  Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
• Suppose an offender had been sentenced to an imprisonment of six months for a larceny, and that while in prison he had committed some new crime. —  The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry
• Amos Gaskens; a man noted before the war for petty larceny, and after it commenced, for plundering under —  A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade
• Murder, larceny, arson, rape -- all offences against the person were commuted for a definite price. —  The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 01: Introduction I

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