Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

Manstealing

See KIDNAPPING.

Steal

vb. 1. To take (personal property) illegally with the intent to keep it unlawfully. 2. To take (something) by larceny, embezzlement, or false pretenses.

Stealth

1 Hist. Theft; an act or instance of stealing. ( Etymologically, this term is the noun corresponding to the verb steal. "Stealth is the wrongful taking of goods without pretence of title: and therefore altereth not the property, as a trespass doth, so as upon an appeal the party shall rehave them." Sir Henry Finch, Law, or a Discourse Thereof 210 (1759). 2. Surreptitiousness; furtive slyness.

child-stealing

See child-kidnapping under KIDNAPPING.

take by stealth

To steal (personal property; to pilfer or filch.