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How to use larceny in a sentence

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Petty theft and larceny are caused by poverty and frequent shortages of consumer goods, but violence is rare.
Most of the crimes were not of a violent nature, but tended to involve shoplifting, larceny, begging or squatting.
Twenty-nine others were arrested for outstanding warrants on charges of burglary, larceny and malicious wounding.
Unfortunately, at 14, Michael was interested in smoking reefer, petty larceny, hookers, LSD and basketball.
By far the most common crime was larceny but the figures for violent crimes by girls also climbed steadily from the late 1990s onwards.
Scarborough magistrate orders his arrest on a bench warrant without bail for failing to appear in court for a larceny matter involving a minor.
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.
Children and adolescents disrupted public order by committing petty thefts and larceny, not by becoming drunk and disorderly.
The trial jury unanimously cleared him of charges of larceny and trying to obtain money by deception.
You truly were going to send her to prison and bother me with putting this young lady on trial for a petty larceny?
For example, the old case management system had separate incident categories for burglary, larceny, fraud and robbery.
The legislation will simplify the law on larceny, fraudulent conversion, forgery and embezzlement.
Hit by a spate of praedial larceny, Aranguez farmers are now using deadly pit bulls and Rottweilers to guard their food crops at night.
The most common offences included larceny, burglary, malicious damage, criminal damage and a host of motoring offences.
Most major crimes, and the crimes most important in popular culture, are those of burglary, theft, larceny, and corruption.
The most prevalent property crimes are larceny, theft, burglary, and robbery.
After investigations into at least 20 complaints against him by his law clients, Burgess was disbarred and convicted of attempted grand larceny.
An indictment of Carol for larceny would therefore be properly subject to dismissal as unconstitutionally vague as applied to her case.
Back then, Cook was convicted in a Charleston, South Carolina, court for grand larceny and burglary.
Crimes leading to imprisonment included prostitution, drug use, larceny, robbery, parole violation, and extortion.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They made the decoying, or aiding therein, of a slave away from his master in the Territory grand larceny, punishable by death.
She asked what the difference was between larceny and grand larceny, in a case.
No, me for where you can carry off things that are too big for the grand larceny statutes.
If an attempt to steal results in carrying off the owner's goods, it is larceny.
But he was ably vindicated by piddler, and the unfortunate Sam was convicted of petty larceny.
Unfortunately a widespread indulgence in predial larceny is a great hindrance to agriculture as well as to moral progress.
But petty larceny, after all, was their principal means of support.
Here is just the opportunity for any one addicted to petty larceny.
The case being tried at the moment was one of petty larceny.
He questioned her as coolly as if it had been a case of petty larceny.
For Flask to have presumed to help himself, this must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the first degree.
In another cell, there was a German, sentenced to five years' imprisonment for larceny, two of which had just expired.
This distinction is important to the identification of the correct victim of a larceny by credit, debit, or electronic transaction.
Manama-August Two Asians accused of holding 54 forged credit cards appeared before the Public Prosecutor to face charges of larceny.
Petit larceny and grand larceny differ only in the amount stolen.
It is larceny all the way down, according to the amount of the spoil.
Industry always has been and always will be the enemy of larceny.
Yesterday afternoon she was arrested, charged with grand larceny.
The father and mother looked as if they had been convicted of larceny.
As a rule, what would be larceny in one would be larceny in the other.
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