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Example sentences for "larceny"

Lexicographically close words:
lapwings; laquais; laquelle; larboard; larcenies; larch; larches; lard; larded; larder
  1. The larceny of the films was still a mystery.

  2. Here was the man he had been accusing of all sorts of crime, from simple larceny to murder, on good terms with the chief, in that district, of the mounted police!

  3. Ground game in such warrens is protected under the Larceny Act 1861, s.

  4. At present offences with reference to deer are included in the Larceny Act 1861.

  5. In criminal law the day formerly commenced at sunrise and extended to sunset, but by the Larceny Act 1861 the day is that period between six in the morning and nine in the evening.

  6. The offence and its punishment are regulated in England by the Larceny Act 1861.

  7. Prescott, you sneak, how long since you have added grand larceny to your other bad habits?

  8. Bert Then he turned to the man with them, demanding: "Don't you see a pretty clear case of grand larceny here?

  9. It's the basest ingratitude for you to whimper over a small larceny when you have added assault or murder to the liabilities of our partnership!

  10. He had been transported for larceny when he was only fifteen years of age, and at twenty-eight he was suspected of being still a thief.

  11. Nor has the legislature passed laws excluding women as a class on account of idiocy or lunacy; nor have the courts convicted them of bribery, larceny or any infamous crime.

  12. It says: "Laws may be passed excluding from the right of suffrage all persons who have been or may be convicted of bribery, larceny or any infamous crime.

  13. He left to seek the advice of a squire who advised him to make an information for larceny by bailee (the technical term meaning larceny of goods temporarily in one's possession).

  14. A single act making larceny in general punishable by death would be more severe than fifty separate acts, making fifty different varieties of larceny punishable by death.

  15. The story of the way Mr. Lungy Addison committed grand larceny in getting away with the Mortal Cinch mine is one that, falling from the mouth, as it does, of a person not learned in the law and its beauties, must be true.

  16. No, me for where you can carry off things that are too big for the grand larceny statutes.

  17. When Connecticut and New Haven were framing their first codes, larceny above the value of twelve pence was a capital crime in England--as it had been since the time of Henry I.

  18. From many descriptions of larceny the law expressly took away the benefit of clergy: to steal a horse, or a HAWK, or woollen cloth from the weaver, was a hanging matter.

  19. Petty larceny is not a noble feature of interviewing.

  20. Even though a facility for selling such dishonestly gained property to advantage be yours, do not convince yourself or be convinced that larceny should be included in your reportorial duties.

  21. For that matter, I hadn't considered the larceny case in any human way.

  22. The petty larceny case was plain; it could be disposed of in no time.

  23. To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.

  24. Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of anything from a shop.

  25. Petit larceny and grand larceny differ only in the amount stolen.

  26. She is "uncontaminated truth," and anything that interferes with her abets larceny and spreads leprosy.

  27. I replied: "Grand larceny is a case where a woman leaves her first husband in one state and marries her second in another without a divorce; and twenty years in the penitentiary is a very common sentence for grand larceny in Michigan.

  28. She asked what the difference was between larceny and grand larceny, in a case.

  29. I am surprised that a woman of your intelligence should take the desperate chance of committing larceny, and grand larceny at that.

  30. Don't you know that larceny is one of the worst offenses a person can be guilty of, in this state?

  31. By this time she was trembling with fear, and said she would pay me in full if I would agree never to mention her name in connection with that larceny affair.

  32. It does, however, render invalid a statute requiring sterilization of persons convicted of various offenses, including larceny by fraud, but exempting embezzlers.

  33. If a man charged with larceny is proved to have taken the goods of another, but under some idea that he had a right to them, no matter how erroneous, the criminal prosecution is instantly dismissed.

  34. It is no more a justification or authorization of the act than is the law punishing larceny an authority for stealing!

  35. When I mentioned to you the prisoners in the ergastula, my good leudes, what I meant to say was that we have there one of my domestic slaves who is charged with larceny by the cook slave.

  36. The slave charged with larceny stands at the foot of the tribunal with his arms tied behind his back.

  37. And squared by a couple of petty larceny protests!

  38. We had both been rooked by the lumbago trick and we fell to discussing the Colonel and his petty larceny system of picking on the new members.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "larceny" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.