Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

animus furandi

the intention to steal. - also termed furandi animus. "[an] intent to deprive the owner of his property permanently, or an intent to deal with another's property unlawfully in such a manner as to create an obviously unreasonable risk of permanent deprivation, [is] all that is required to constitute the animus furandi - or intent to steal." rollin m. perkins & ronald n. boyce, criminal law 332-33 (3d ed. 1982).