theft

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theft - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Theft \Theft\ (th[e^]ft), n. [OE. thefte, AS.
     [thorn]i['e]f[eth]e, [thorn][=y]f[eth]e, [thorn]e['o]f[eth]e.
     See Thief.]
     1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious
        taking and removing of personal property, with an intent
        to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
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     Note: To constitute theft there must be a taking without the
           owner's consent, and it must be unlawful or felonious;
           every part of the property stolen must be removed,
           however slightly, from its former position; and it must
           be, at least momentarily, in the complete possession of
           the thief. See Larceny, and the Note under Robbery.
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     2. The thing stolen. [R.]
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              If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, .
              . . he shall restore double.          --Ex. xxii. 4.
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theft - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  theft
      n 1: the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the
           thieving is awful at Kennedy International" [syn:
           larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealing]

theft - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Theft
  Punished by restitution, the proportions of which are noted in 2
  Sam. 12:6. If the thief could not pay the fine, he was to be
  sold to a Hebrew master till he could pay (Ex. 22:1-4). A
  night-thief might be smitten till he died, and there would be no
  blood-guiltiness for him (22:2). A man-stealer was to be put to
  death (21:16). All theft is forbidden (Ex. 20:15; 21:16; Lev.
  19:11; Deut. 5:19; 24:7; Ps. 50:18; Zech. 5:3; Matt. 19:18; Rom.
  13:9; Eph. 4:28; 1 Pet. 4:15).

theft - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  THEFT, crimes. This word is sometimes used as synonymous with larceny, 
  (q.v.) but it is not so technical. Ayliffe's Pand. 581 2 Swift's Dig. 309. 
       2. In the Scotch law, this is a proper and technical word, and 
  signifies the secret and felonious abstraction of the property of another 
  for sake of lucre, without his consent. Alison, Princ. Cr. Law of Scotl. 
  250. 
  
  

theft - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "theft":
     acquisition, appropriation, boosting, burglary, caper, claiming,
     embezzlement, filch, filching, grab, heist, hijacking, job,
     larceny, lift, lifting, pilferage, pilfering, pinch, pinching,
     possession, purloining, reception, rip-off, robbery, robbing,
     score, shoplifting, snitching, steal, stealage, stealing, swiping,
     taking, taking away, taking possession, thievery, thieving,
     touch