2. Verb. (American English) (alternative spelling of kidnapping) ¹
3. Noun. (American English) (alternative spelling of kidnapping) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kidnaping
1. kidnap [v] - See also: kidnap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kidnaping
Literary usage of Kidnaping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Codes and Statutes of California: As Amended and in Force at the Close by California, Carter Pitkin Pomeroy (1901)
"kidnaping, nt the common law, is seizing n person, and carrying him to a place
... The requisites of an indictment charging kidnaping were held, in Click v. ..."
2. Standard Encyclopædia of Procedure by Edward William Tuttle, Edward E. Burns, James De Witt Andrews, Edgar Whittlesey Camp (1914)
"kidnaping. I. Indictment for kidnaping, II. Indictment for kidnaping With Intent
To Carry From Residence, HI. Information for kidnaping Under Common Law, ..."
3. The Penal Code of the State of California: Adopted February 14, 1872, with by California, Charles Howard Fairall (1909)
"Punishment of kidnaping. § 209. Penalty for kidnaping for purposes of extortion
... kidnaping is the forcible abduction or stealing; •way of s man, woman, ..."
4. A Manual of Elementary Law: Being a Summary of the Well-settled Elementary by William Pinckney Fishback (1896)
"kidnaping is the unlawful seizure of any person with the intent ... By the common
law kidnaping was the forcible abduction or stealing away of a man, ..."
5. The Penal Code of California, Enacted in 1872: As Amended Up to and by California, Walter Scott Brann, Richard Maury Sims (1906)
"kidnaping defined. kidnaping. 8 208. Punishment of kidnaping. § 209. Penalty for
kidnaping. 8 207. kidnaping defined. Every person who forcibly steals, ..."
6. Prosecution and Defense: Practical Directions and Forms for the Grand-jury by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1901)
"These offenses being nearly related, with no distinct partition between them,
and in a general way kidnaping being a sort of aggravated false imprisonment, ..."
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