Download or read book Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American Or English Jurisprudence, Vol. 2 written by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence, Vol. 2: L-Z Within robbery; but the evident mean ing and effect of the decision is that robbery is a species or kind of larceny. The New York code commissioners pro posed definitions of the two words which should treat them as distinct offences: larceny, to mean the taking of personal property, accomplished by fraud or stealth, or without color of right there to, and with intent to deprive another thereof; and robbery, to mean the wrongful taking of personal property in the possession of another from his per son or immediate presence and against his will, accomplished by means of force or fear. Rep. Pen. Code, 584; Id. 280. But this was proposed as a measure of new legislation, not as ex pressing exactly the common - law usage of the words. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.