Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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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.

take by stealth

To steal (personal property; to pilfer or filch.