Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Larceny
n. The unlawful taking and carrying away of someone else's personal property with the intent to deprive the possessor of it permanently. ( Common-law larceny has been broadened by some statutes to include embezzlement and false pretenses, all three of which are often subsumed under the statutory crime of "theft.""[T]he distinctions between larceny, embezzlement and false pretenses serve no useful purpose in the criminal law but are useless handicaps from the standpoint of the administration of criminal justice. One solution has been to combine all three in one section of the code under the name of 'larceny.' This has one disadvantage, however, because it frequently becomes necessary to add a modifier to make clear whether the reference is to common-law larceny or to statutory larceny." Rollin M. Perkins & Ronald N. Boyce, Criminal Law 389 (3d ed. 1982).
aggravated larceny
Larceny accompanied by some aggravating factor (as when the theft is from a person).
aggravated larceny.
see larceny.
complicated larceny
See mixed larceny. compound larceny. See mixed larceny.
compound larceny
See mixed larceny under LARCENY.
constructive larceny
See LARCENY.
grand larceny
Larceny of property worth more than a statutory cutoff amount, usu. $100. Cf. petit larceny. "The English law, as the result of an early statute [the Statute of Westminster I, ch. 15 (1275)], classified this offense [larceny] as either (1) grand larceny or (2) petit larceny (now frequently written petty larceny), the former being a capital offense and the latter punishable by forfeiture of goods and whipping, but not death. Both, as mentioned earlier, were felonies. The offense was grand larceny if the value of the property stolen exceeded twelve pence and petit larceny if it did not. Modern statutes very generally retain this same classification (sometimes without using these labels) but with different penalties and different values set as the dividing line." Rollin M. Perkins & Ronald N. Boyce, Criminal Law 335 (3d ed. 1982).
grand larceny.
See LARCENY.
larceny by bailee
Larceny committed by a bailee who converts the property to personal use or to the use of a third party.
larceny by extortion
Larceny in which the perpetrator obtains property by threatening to (1) inflict bodily harm on anyone or commit any other criminal offense, (2) accuse anyone of a criminal offense, (3) expose any secret tending to subject any person to hatred, contempt, or ridicule, or impair one's credit or business reputation, (4) take or withhold action as an official, or cause an official to take or withhold action, (5) bring about or continue a strike, boycott, or other collective unofficial action, if the property is not demanded or received for the benefit of the group in whose interest the actor purports to act, (6) testify or provide information or withhold testimony or information with respect to another's legal claim or defense, or (7) inflict any other harm that would not benefit the actor. Model Penal Code § 223.4. See EXTORTION.
larceny by trick
Larceny in which the taker misleads the rightful possessor, by misrepresentation of fact, into giving up possession of (but not title to) the goods. - Also termed larceny by trick and deception; larceny by trick and device; larceny by fraud and deception. Cf. FALSE PRETENSES; cheating by false pretenses under CHEATING.
larceny from the person
Larceny in which the goods are taken directly from the person, but without violence or intimidation, the victim usu. being unaware of the taking. ( Pick pocketing is a typical example. This offense is similar to robbery except that violence or intimidation is not involved. Cf. ROBBERY.
larceny of property lost, mislaid, or delivered by mistake
Larceny in which one obtains control of property the person knows to be lost, mislaid, or delivered by mistake (esp. in the amount of property or identity of recipient) and' fails to take reasonable measures to restore the property to the rightful owner. Model Penal Code § 223.5.
mixed larceny
See LARCENY.
petit larceny
Larceny of property worth less than a statutory cutoff amount, usu. $100. -Also spelled petty larceny. Cf. grand larceny.
petty larceny
See petit larceny under LARCENY.
simple larceny
See LARCENY,
single-larceny doctrine
Criminal law. the principle that the taking of different items A property either belonging to the same or different owners at the same time and place constitutes one act of larceny if the theft is part f t one larcenous plan, as when it involves essel;tially one continuous act or if control over th.-, property is exercised simultaneously. 0 The intent of the thief determines the number c: occurrences. - Also termed single-.impuls plan; single-larceny rule; single-criminal-intew