In criminal law. The offense of taking away a man’s wife, child, or ward, by fraud and persuasion, or open violence. 3 BI. Comm. 139-141; Humphrey v. Pope, 122 Cal. 253, 54 Pac. 847; State v. George, 93 N. C. 567; State v. Chisenhall, 106 N. C. 676, 11 S. E. 518; People v. Seeley, 37 Hun (N. Y.) 190
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
