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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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Hit by a spate of praedial larceny, Aranguez farmers are now using deadly pit bulls and Rottweilers to guard their food crops at night.
A larceny committed with actual force and violence, or with a constructive force by any assault and putting in fear, is to be adjudged robbery.
Back then, Cook was convicted in a Charleston, South Carolina, court for grand larceny and burglary.
By far the most common crime was larceny but the figures for violent crimes by girls also climbed steadily from the late 1990s onwards.
You truly were going to send her to prison and bother me with putting this young lady on trial for a petty larceny?
After investigations into at least 20 complaints against him by his law clients, Burgess was disbarred and convicted of attempted grand larceny.

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