Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

rapina

[Latin "robbery, pillage"] Civil law. The forcible taking of another's movable property with the intent to appropriate it to one's own use. "Rapina is the taking away of a thing by violent means. It gives rise to the praetorian actio vi bonorum raptorum ...." Rudolph Sohm, The Institutes: A Textbook of the History and System of Roman Private Law 419 (James Crawford Ledlie trans., 3d ed. 1907).