Larceny is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LARCENY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• theft of personal property (replaced as a statutory crime in English law by theft)
• theft of personal property. In English law larceny was replaced as a statutory crime by theft in 1968.
• The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. Embezzlement.
• the act of taking something from someone unlawfully
• theft

Words related to LARCENY

larcener10 larceners11 larcenies11 larcenist11 larcenists12 larcenous11 larcenously16 theft11

How to use LARCENY in a sentence

• A man who robs or injures a church, or even an episcopal palace, is not prosecuted for sacrilege, but for larceny or malicious damage or something of the kind.
• I trust that, in adapting the words of the following little ballad to a well-known English air, I have committed no unpardonable larceny.
• Among the rest of the doubtful characters with which our court abounded was one Joe Traill, who had been in prison many a time for petty larceny and the like.
• On one occasion I went to one of the best and most substantial citizens of the country, Wayne Claypool, and asked him about an act of larceny of which he had been a witness.
• A stout healthy woman, named Mary Norris was continually taken up as a vagrant, or committed for petty larceny.
• Likewise as compared with 52 whites and 4 free negroes serving terms for larceny, there were no slave prisoners in that category.
• I do not know that there has even been petty larceny.
• While I think of it I must refer to an act of petty larceny committed by me when I was last at Brookroyd.
• March 3, 1903, sentenced to serve thirty days for larceny, and on the same date was further charged with disorderly conduct, for which he was given fifteen days in the workhouse.
• On January 23, 1910, he was given a two months workhouse sentence for petty larceny.
• This step was taken by his father because the patient for some years previously had been frequently placed under arrest on charges of larceny.
• Sometimes they are prosecuted, not for larceny, but for violating the quarantine laws in boarding vessels detained at quarantine.
• Further, nobody could be convicted of larceny except on an indictment or complaint which set forth the time and place of each single conversion.
• A few years ago a young man who kept a grocery store was tried before Judge Peters for larceny.
• The Attorney-General, for the Government, maintained that everything that went to constitute the crime of larceny existed there.
• Francis Bar at the Golden Gate, was once a Poor Boy with Store Clothes on his Back and Grand Larceny in his Heart.
• The offence and its punishment are regulated in England by the Larceny Act 1861.
• The felony need not be a larceny, it may be either murder or rape.
• It may, according to the Larceny Act 1861, be committed in a school-house, shop, warehouse or counting-house.
• A considerable number, perhaps more than any other, come through the commission of robbery, burglary and larceny.
• But the law recognized the difference between a theft by a sworn and trusted officer and an ordinary larceny.
• Suppose an offender had been sentenced to an imprisonment of six months for a larceny, and that while in prison he had committed some new crime.
• He stated the case to the court and jury, saying among other things, that he would not only prove the larceny by ordinary evidence, but by the confession of the prisoner himself.
• Jim Johnson, a liberated African, for grand larceny.
• He was tried by court martial for larceny and convicted.
• His life is one long course of larceny, and I know that if he had the gift of speech, he would also be a consummate liar.
• But I insisted upon it to them, and so I do to you, Jack, that I ought to be acquitted of every thing but a common theft, a private larceny, as the lawyers call it, in this point.
• I am ready to charge the prisoner with having committed a larceny of money from Francois Le Brun on his journey from Montreal.
• In the month of July, 1876, the same month the claim for pension was allowed, the woman Roberts was indicted for larceny, the complaining witness being Mr.

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