In 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 fe* lonious intent to convert them to his (the taker’s) use, and make them hls property, without the consent of the owner. State v. South, 28 N. J. Law, 31, 75 Am. Dec. 230; State v. Chambers, 22 W. Va. 786, 46 Am. Rep. 550; State v. Parry, 48 La. Ann. 1483, 21 South. 30; Haywood v. State, 41 Ark. 479; Philamaiee v. State, 58 Neb. 320, 78 N. W. 625; People v. Bosworth, 64 Hun, 72, 19 N, Y. Supp. 114; State v. Hawkins, 8 Port. (Ala.) 463, 33 Am. Dec. 294
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
