Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Cybertheft
See CYBERTHEFT.
National Motor Vehicle Theft Act
See DYER ACT.
Theft
n. 1. The felonious taking and removing of another's personal property with the intent of depriving the true owner of it; larceny. 2. Broadly, any act or instance of stealing, including larceny, burglary, embezzlement, and false pretenses. a Many modern penal codes have consolidated such property offenses under the name "theft." See LARCENY. "[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. To avoid this difficulty some states have employed another word to designate a statutory offense made up of a combination of larceny, embezzlement, and false pretenses. And the word used for this purpose is 'theft.' 'Theft' is not the name of any common-law offense. At times it has been employed as a synonym of 'larceny,' but for the most part has been regarded as broader in its general scope. Under such a statute it is not necessary for the indictment charging theft to specify whether the offense is larceny, embezzlement or false pretenses." Rollin M. Perkins & Ronald N. Boyce, Criminal Law 389-90 (3d ed. 1982).
Theft bote
See ROTE (2)
Theftuous
adj. 1. (Of an act) characterized by theft. 2. (Of a person) given to stealing. - Also spelled theflous.
theft by deception
See THEFT.
theft by false pretext
The use of a false pretext to obtain another's property.
theft of services
See THEFT.
theft-bote
The acceptance of a payment from a thief in exchange for an agreement not to prosecute; COMPOUNDING A CRIME. The payment might be either a bribe or a return of the stolen goods themselves. This was a form of compounding a felony. "Another offence of this class is thefbote or composition with a thief by which the person robbed takes his goods again and by contract suppresses the robbery and defrauds justice. This crime is punishable by fine and imprisonment." 1 Sir Robert Chambers, A Course of Lectures on the English Law: 1767-1773 448 (Thomas M. Curley ed., 1986). 3. A tenant's right to use as much wood from the estate as necessary for fuel, fences, and other agricultural operations. 0 Bote in this sense is an earlier form of estouers.