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larceny

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larceny

In the USA, and formerly in the UK, theft, the taking of personal property without consent and with the intention of permanently depriving the owner of it.

In some US states, larceny in which the value of the property exceeds a specified amount is grand larceny; larceny involving lesser amounts is petty larceny.
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For Flask to have presumed to help himself, this must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the first degree.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
For, the fugitive out on the marshes with the ironed leg, the mysterious young man, the file, the food, and the dreadful pledge I was under to commit a larceny on those sheltering premises, rose before me in the avenging coals.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
In another cell, there was a German, sentenced to five years' imprisonment for larceny, two of which had just expired.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
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