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Definition of Larcenous
1. Noun. Having a disposition to steal.
Definition of Larcenous
1. a. Having the character of larceny; as, a larcenous act; committing larceny.
Definition of Larcenous
1. Adjective. Given to larceny, tending to thievery. ¹
2. Adjective. Resembling theft, often applied to legal actions that seem unfair. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Larcenous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Larcenous
Literary usage of Larcenous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Defences to Crime: The Adjudged Cases on Defences to Crime by John Davison Lawson (1885)
"BURGLARY —NO larcenous INTENT —USING GOODS. STATE v. RYAN. [12 Nev. 401. ...
Held, that this did not establish the larcenous Intent essential to constitute ..."
2. A Law Dictionary Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American by Henry Campbell Black (1910)
"Having the character of larceny; as a "larcenous taking. ... —larcenous intent.
Л . larcenous intent exists where a man knowingly takes and carries away the ..."
3. The Foundations of Legal Liability: A Presentation of the Theory and by Thomas Atkins Street (1906)
"5 In making the conversion larcenous where bulk is broken the law has evidently,
as said by Lord Campbell in a modern case, resorted to some astuteness in ..."
4. The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and by John Proffatt, Abraham Clark Freeman (1886)
"The fraudulent and secret conversion of it afterwards to the defendant's use
could not impress a larcenous character on the original taking; ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"A series of larcenous acts, regardless of amount and value of separate parcels
and articles taken, and regardless of the time occupied in the performance, ..."
6. Ethics of Democracy: A Series of Optimistic Essays on the Natural Laws of by Louis Freeland Post (1916)
"But now and again he awakes to a realization of the fact that acts which he had
not before understood to be larcenous are larcenous. ..."
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