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Thief




Thief

Crimes. One who has been guilty of larceny or theft.

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Guilty
The state or condition of a person who has committed a crime, misdemeanor or offence. This word implies a malicious intent, and must be applied to something universally allowed to be a crime.

Larceny
Criminal law. The wrongful and fraudulent taking and carrying away, by one person, of the mere personal goods, of another, from any place, with a felonious intent to convert them to his, the taker's use, and make them his property, without the consent of the owner.

Theft
Crimes. This word is sometimes used as synonymous with larceny, . but it is not so technical.



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Thief's calculator
A collection of innocent-looking bits and pieces near the cash register for the purpose of tracking the amount of cash stolen by Skimming.



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The third approach
The third approach -to conflicts law of theory. Under this approach conflict law problems are solved by general commentaries, texts and essays. It does not have the all-embracing numbered rules of the Second Approach found for example in the Dicey & Morris. Nor does it have a single solution of the First Approach found in the theory of the Statutists or Story's "comity" and territoriality.

Theft
Crimes. This word is sometimes used as synonymous with larceny, . but it is not so technical.

Theft-bote
The act of receiving a man's goods from the thief, after they had been stolen by him, with the intent that he shall escape punishment.

Theocracy
A species of government which claims to be immediately directed by God.

Theodosian code
This code, which originated in the eastern empire, was adopted in the Western empire towards its decline. It is a collection of the legislation of the Christian emperors, from and including Constantine to Theodosius, the Younger; it is composed of sixteen books, the edicts, acts, rescripts, and ordinances of the two empires, that of the east and that of the west.

Thief

Thief's calculator
A collection of innocent-looking bits and pieces near the cash register for the purpose of tracking the amount of cash stolen by Skimming.

Thing adjudged
That which has been decided by a final judgment, by a tribu-nal of competent jurisdiction, from which there can be no appeal, either because the appeal did not lie, or because the time fixed by law for the appealing has elapsed, or because it has been confirmed on the appeal.

Things
By this word is understood every object, except man, which may become an active subject of right. Code du Canton de Berne, art. 332. In this sense it is opposed, in the language of the law, to the word persons.

Third parties
This term includes all persons who are not parties to the contract, agrement or instrument of writing, by which their interest in the thing conveyed is sought to be affected.

Third party complaint
A petition filed by a defendant against a third party (not presently a party to the suit) which alleges that the third party is liable for all or part of the damages plaintiff may win from defendant.

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