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Robbery
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RobberyCrimes. The felonious and forcible taking from the person of another, goods or money to any value, by violence or putting him in fear.
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Taking
1) English law. The union of securities given at different times, so as to prevent any intermediate purchasers claiming title to redeem, or otherwise discharge one lien, which is prior, without redeeming or discharging other liens also, which are subsequent to his own title. 2) Crim. torts. The act of laying hold upon an article, with or without removing the same; a felonious taking is not sufficient without a carrying away, to constitute the crime of larceny.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Money
Gold, silver, and some other less precious metals, in the progress of civilization and commerce, have become the common standards of value; in order to avoid the delay and inconvenience of regulating their weight and quality whenever passed, the governments of the civilized world have caused them to be manufactured in certain portions, and marked with a Stamp which attests their value; this is called money.
Value
Common law. This term has two different meanings. It sometimes expresses the utility of an object, and some times the power of purchasing other good with it. The first may be called value in use, the latter value in exchange.
Violence
The abuse of force. Theorie des Lois Criminelles. That force which is employed against common right, against the laws, and against public liberty
Fear
Criminal law. Dread, consciousness of approaching danger.
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Robber
One who commits a robbery. One who feloniously and forcibly takes goods or money to any value from the person of another by violence or putting him, in fear.
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Rixa
Civil law. A dispute; a quarrel.
Rixatrix
Common scold.
Road
1) A passage through the country for the use of the people. 2) Maritime law. A road is defined by Lord Hale to be an open passage of the sea, which, from the situation of the adjacent land, and its own depth and wideness, affords a secure place for the common riding and anchoring of vessels.
Roaring
A disease among horses occasioned by the circumstance of the neck of the windpipe being too narrow for accelerated respiration; the disorder is frequently produced by sore throat or other topical inflammation.
Robber
One who commits a robbery. One who feloniously and forcibly takes goods or money to any value from the person of another by violence or putting him, in fear.
Robbery
Robinson-patman act
An amendment to the Clayton Act which deals with price discrimination.
Rod
A measure sixteen feet and a half long; a perch.
Rogatory, letters
A kind of commission from a judge authorizing and requesting a judge of another jurisdiction to examine a witness.
Rogue
A French word, which in that language signifies proud, arrogant. In some of the ancient English statutes it means an idle, sturdy beggar, which is its meaning in law. Rogues are usually punished as vagrants. Although the word rogue is a word of reproach, yet to charge one as a rogue is not actionable.
Role d'equipage
The list of a ship's crew; the muster roll.
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Taking
1) English law. The union of securities given at different times, so as to prevent any intermediate purchasers claiming title to redeem, or otherwise discharge one lien, which is prior, without redeeming or discharging other liens also, which are subsequent to his own title. 2) Crim. torts. The act of laying hold upon an article, with or without removing the same; a felonious taking is not sufficient without a carrying away, to constitute the crime of larceny.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Money
Gold, silver, and some other less precious metals, in the progress of civilization and commerce, have become the common standards of value; in order to avoid the delay and inconvenience of regulating their weight and quality whenever passed, the governments of the civilized world have caused them to be manufactured in certain portions, and marked with a Stamp which attests their value; this is called money.
Value
Common law. This term has two different meanings. It sometimes expresses the utility of an object, and some times the power of purchasing other good with it. The first may be called value in use, the latter value in exchange.
Violence
The abuse of force. Theorie des Lois Criminelles. That force which is employed against common right, against the laws, and against public liberty
Fear
Criminal law. Dread, consciousness of approaching danger.
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Robber
One who commits a robbery. One who feloniously and forcibly takes goods or money to any value from the person of another by violence or putting him, in fear.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Rixa
Civil law. A dispute; a quarrel.
Rixatrix
Common scold.
Road
1) A passage through the country for the use of the people. 2) Maritime law. A road is defined by Lord Hale to be an open passage of the sea, which, from the situation of the adjacent land, and its own depth and wideness, affords a secure place for the common riding and anchoring of vessels.
Roaring
A disease among horses occasioned by the circumstance of the neck of the windpipe being too narrow for accelerated respiration; the disorder is frequently produced by sore throat or other topical inflammation.
Robber
One who commits a robbery. One who feloniously and forcibly takes goods or money to any value from the person of another by violence or putting him, in fear.
Robbery
Robinson-patman act
An amendment to the Clayton Act which deals with price discrimination.
Rod
A measure sixteen feet and a half long; a perch.
Rogatory, letters
A kind of commission from a judge authorizing and requesting a judge of another jurisdiction to examine a witness.
Rogue
A French word, which in that language signifies proud, arrogant. In some of the ancient English statutes it means an idle, sturdy beggar, which is its meaning in law. Rogues are usually punished as vagrants. Although the word rogue is a word of reproach, yet to charge one as a rogue is not actionable.
Role d'equipage
The list of a ship's crew; the muster roll.
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