Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, the receiving of one's goods again from a thief, or a compensation for them by way of composition, upon an agreement not to prosecute: a form of compounding felony.
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Examples
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The Bailie opined that this transaction would amount to theft-boot, or composition of felony; and he recommended that some canny hand should be sent up to the glens to make the best bargain he could, as it were for himself, so that the Laird might not be seen in such a transaction.
Waverley 2004
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Ye had better stick to your auld trade o 'theft-boot and blackmail than ruining nations.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910
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The Bailie opined that this transaction would amount to theft-boot, or composition of felony; and he recommended that some canny hand should be sent up to the glens to make the best bargain he could, as it were for himself, so that the laird might not be seen in such a transaction.
The Waverley 1877
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The Bailie opined that this transaction would amount to theft-boot, or composition of felony; and he recommended that some canny hand should be sent up to the glens to make the best bargain he could, as it were for himself, so that the Laird might not be seen in such a transaction.
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
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The Bailie opined that this transaction would amount to theft-boot, or composition of felony; and he recommended that some canny hand should be sent up to the glens to make the best bargain he could, as it were for himself, so that the Laird might not be seen in such a transaction.
Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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The Bailie opined that this transaction would amount to theft-boot, or composition of felony; and he recommended that some canny hand should be sent up to the glens to make the best bargain he could, as it were for himself, so that the Laird might not be seen in such a transaction.
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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The Bailie opined that this transaction would amount to theft-boot, or composition of felony; and he recommended that some CANNY
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
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Ye had better stick to your auld trade o’ theft-boot, black-mail, spreaghs, and gillravaging — better stealing nowte than ruining nations.”
Rob Roy 2005
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Ye had better stick to your auld trade o 'theft-boot, black-mail, spreaghs, and gillravaging -- better stealing nowte than ruining nations. "
Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Ye had better stick to your auld trade o 'theft-boot, black-mail, spreaghs, and gillravaging -- better stealing nowte than ruining nations. "
Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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