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Monday, August 11, 2008

Word of the Week

Robbery

Robbery is a theft committed in the presence of the victim -- a hold up. As the legal lexicographer John Cowell wrote in 1607:

Robberie commeth from the French, and in our common lawe [signifies] a
felonious taking away of another mans goods from his person or presence, against
his will, putting him in feare, and of purpose to steal the same goods
.

Highway robbery was, at first, not a metaphor, but a technical offense -- a robbery committed on the King's highway, and it carried a heavier sentence.

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