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Definition of Kidnapping

1. Noun. (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment.

Definition of Kidnapping

1. Verb. (present participle of kidnap) ¹

2. Noun. (legal) The crime of taking a person against their will, sometimes for ransom. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Kidnapping

1. kidnap [v] - See also: kidnap

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kidnapping

Literary usage of Kidnapping

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on the Criminal Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1877)
"kidnapping. In the broadest sense, either term includes various wrongful acts which ... The New York commissioners, under the title kidnapping, propose the ..."

2. Poet Lore (1921)
"Night kidnapping, kidnapping by day, a pompous kidnapping In a court ... A kidnapping On the qt a little dull perhaps. A pleasant kidnapping done in a sack. ..."

3. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell (1877)
"OF kidnapping, AND CHILD-STEALING. Ч Sec, I.— Of kidnapping. ... or secreting of a,ny person, sometimes called kidnapping, is an offence, at common law, ..."

4. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1898)
"Where kidnapping is made a statutory crime the indictment will be sufficient if it charges the offense in the language of the statute defining it * or in ..."

5. The Penal Code of California by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch, John H. McKune (1872)
"CHAPTER HI. kidnapping. SECTION 207. kidnapping defined. 208. Punishment of kidnapping. 207. (§§ 53, 54, 55.) Every person who forcibly ..."

6. Handbook of Criminal Law by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1915)
"kidnapping 85. kidnapping with us is a false imprisonment aggravated by conveying, and, in some states, by a mere intent to convey, the person imprisoned to ..."

7. Handbook of Criminal Law by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1915)
"It is a misdemeanor at common law.78 Under the old common law, kidnapping was "the forci"t>le abduction or stealing away of a man, woman, or child £rom ..."

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