 | Massachusetts, William Charles White - 1810 - 202 pages
...one is called simple larceny ; the other bears the name of mixed or compound larceny. Simple larceny is the felonious taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another. Mixed or compound larceny, is such as has all the properties of the former, but is accompanied wilh... | |
 | John Reeves - 1814 - 580 pages
...changes, had, as we have seen in the reign of Edward IV. (a) become settled, in the following terms: The felonious taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another. In judging of offences, courts were tied up to this definition, and often found themselves embarrassed... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1820 - 486 pages
...deprehensus fuisset, suspenderetur ; sublata wirgildorum, id est, pecuniarae redemptionis lege.' Larc.eny is the felonious taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another. 1. As to the taking, the 3. 4. WM c. 9. § 5, is not additional to the Common law, but declaratory... | |
 | 1821 - 328 pages
...malicious mischief; 3. forgery. v. Larciny is, 1. simple; 2. mixed, or compound. vI. Simple larciny is the felonious taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another : and it is, 1. grand larciny; being above the valne of twelve pence ; which is felony, in some cases... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - 1823 - 872 pages
...offences which are considerably distinguished in their punishment, but not otherwise. Simple larceny then is, " the felonious taking, and carrying away, of the personal goods of another." At present we shall examine the nature of theft, or larceny, as laid down in the foregoing definition.... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1828 - 436 pages
...some observations will be made upon two of those offences only. Larceny is defined by Blackstone to be "the felonious taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another" — a more comprehensive definition, and one better suited to m'odern views of the subject, describes... | |
 | Daniel Davis - 1828 - 522 pages
...judges have not agreed upon a precise definition of simple larceny. In Blackstone,| it is said to be " the felonious taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another." East has his definition, which is much more full, and though it may be more correct, it is more clumsily... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 486 pages
...deprehensus fuisset, suspenderetur ; sublata wirgildorum, id est, pecuniara redemptionis lege.' Larceny is the felonious taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another. 1 . As to the taking, the 3, 4 WM c. 9. $. 5, is not additional to the common law, but declaratory... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...deprehensus fuisset, •fprademur ; sublata wirgildorum, id est, pccuniara; redemptionis lege.' Larceny -•the felonious taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another. 1. As M the taking, the 3, 4 WM c. 0. $. 5, is not additional to the common law, bat declaratory of... | |
 | W. Jeffcott - 1830 - 82 pages
...attended with no act of violence, which is the crime of forgery : of these three in their order. LARCENY is " the felonious taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another." It must be a taking. This implies the consent of the owner to be wanting. There must not only be a... | |
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The usual definition of larceny is, "the felonious taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another. 
