Theft

And theft is not repaid with theft.

Or suppose that he stole a cloak, or an oil-flask, or any such trifle, from the Lyceum, or the Academy, or Cynosarges, or any utensil from the gymnasia or the harbors, above the value of ten drachmas, for such thefts also Solon enacted the capital penalty.

For a theft in day-time of more than fifty drachmas a man might be arrested summarily and put into custody of the Eleven.

The statutes enacted by Solon, a very different legislator from the defendant, provided that if a man is convicted of theft, and not punished with death, he shall suffer imprisonment;

For if the latter is insolvent, then as the owner cannot recover what he has a right to claim from him, he can himself maintain the action of theft against the thief;

But even to deal with a thing in the belief that you are acting against the will of the owner, if the owner is in fact consenting to your doing so, is said not to amount to theft;

and therefore cannot maintain the action of theft which is only maintainable by the owner of the thing.

The only form of dishonesty treated of in the most ancient Roman law is Theft.

We can see the signs in Roman law of their dwindling importance, which is exactly what we should expect from the growth of population, from the rising value of land, from the greater plentifulness of capital, and from the freer multiplication of movable articles of use or luxury, and from their consequent relative cheapness.

The Salic titles on thefts of swine, thefts of kine, thefts of tame birds, and so forth, succeed one another down to the ninth Title, where the subject of Trespass is taken up;

We need not go further, and all which must be recollected is that the earliest Roman Code treated first of legal procedure, and then, either at once or shortly afterwards, dealt with the subjects of Thefts and Deposits;

Whether secretly or openly, by night or by day, whatever seizure of another's property occurs, that is declared to be theft (*steya*).

Whatever is stolen from anyone in his own country must be restored by the king.

For property stolen in another village, the king shall make the village headman pay.

They call a crime of violence (`sāhasam` (साहसम्)) an act of aggression, but theft is by deceit.

The taking away of these by various means, by deceiving those who are asleep, heedless, or intoxicated, the wise call theft.

from improper expenditure, from a previous history of theft, and from association with the wicked—they are to be identified by clues, not just by being caught with the stolen goods.

If one arrested on suspicion of theft does not clear himself, he shall be made to restore the stolen property and be punished with the punishment for a thief.

For one who knowingly gives food, shelter, fire, water, counsel, tools, or expenses to a thief, or who receives stolen goods, the fine is the highest amercement.

if in an unguarded area, with the official appointed to catch thieves.