Theft
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theft · steya · thief · thieves · Thefts · furtum · stole
in the texts
Against Timocrates
The criminal taking of property, punished by death, imprisonment, double repayment, or tenfold repayment depending on circumstances.
Solon’s view was that the doer of infamous deeds ought not to get off with mere repayment of the money stolen;
The thief shall be kept in the stocks for five days and five nights, if an additional penalty is awarded by the court;
For a theft in day-time of more than fifty drachmas a man might be arrested summarily and put into custody of the Eleven.
Institutes of Roman Law
The delict of theft and its constitutive elements under Roman law.
The same definition of theft is given by Paulus.
Sometimes there may be a theft even of free persons;
What has been said of the fuller and tailor applies to the borrower of a thing (commodatarius);
Ancient Law
The crime of taking another's property, cited as the earliest recognized dishonesty in Roman law.
The only form of dishonesty treated of in the most ancient Roman law is Theft.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The legal category of theft, whose prominence in early codes is analyzed as a marker of economic development.
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;
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.
Kātyāyana Smṛti
Legal category defined as any unauthorized seizure of another's property, with an elaborate doctrine making the king liable to restore stolen goods or their value, and punishing thieves, accomplices, and receivers.
## Theft
For a theft in a house, the king shall make the thief-catchers pay.
He should diligently restore the stolen property in its original form.
Nāradasmṛti
The legal category of taking others' property by stealth or deceit, extensively classified and punished
Theft
They call a crime of violence (`sāhasam` (साहसम्)) an act of aggression, but theft is by deceit.
Garments other than silk, cattle other than cows, metals other than gold, and rice and barley are middling objects.
Yājñavalkya Smṛti
The legal category of theft, covering detection of thieves, arrest on suspicion, punishment, and communal liability for unrecovered stolen property.
if in an unguarded area, with the official appointed to catch thieves.
A thief is caught by his pursuers, with the stolen goods, or by his footprints;
Others too may be arrested on suspicion, who conceal their caste, name, and so on;