Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Contrectatio
n. [fr. Latin contrectare "to touch or handle"] Hist. The act of laying hands on another's property with the intent of taking, misappropriating, or misusing it. 0 This term implied a greater culpability than simply taking property without the owner's permission and, under the Roman law, could rise to the level of theft (furturn). contributing cause. See CAUSE (1)
Contrectatio rei alienae animo furandi est furtum
Touching or taking another's property with an intention of stealing is theft.
Furtum est contrectatio rei alienae fraudulenta, cum animo furandi, invito illo domino cujus res illa fuerat
Theft is the fraudulent handling of another's property, with an intention of stealing, against the will of the proprietor, whose property it had been.