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What does larceny mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word larceny? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (law) The unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently.
  2. (law) A larcenous act attributable to an individual.
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The legislation will simplify the law on larceny, fraudulent conversion, forgery and embezzlement.
The trial jury unanimously cleared him of charges of larceny and trying to obtain money by deception.
By far the most common crime was larceny but the figures for violent crimes by girls also climbed steadily from the late 1990s onwards.
Petty theft and larceny are caused by poverty and frequent shortages of consumer goods, but violence is rare.
You truly were going to send her to prison and bother me with putting this young lady on trial for a petty larceny?
Back then, Cook was convicted in a Charleston, South Carolina, court for grand larceny and burglary.

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