Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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.