It is pretty simple to learn LARCENY. It is the legal word for theft. That is what it simply reduces to in fact.
One really interesting sentence that I found for the word Larceny is this: Stealing without administering fear is called larceny, stealing by administering fear is called robbery, the keyword here is “steal.” It gives a terrific distinction between larceny and robbing.
The dictionary definition for Larceny are as follows:
1. The wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another from his or her possession with intent to convert them to the taker’s own use (noun).
Masters Tip to remember Larceny:
LARCENY=THEFT
Usage Examples for Larceny:
1. Tom was sentenced for 5 years imprisonment for larceny.
2. For example, an officer who wanted to hide a grand larceny, which is counted as an index crime and as such would affect the city’s crime rate, could classify the crime as a petite larceny, a statistic that is not counted as part of the official crime rate. — The Wall Street Journal, “Police in About-Face on City Crime Data”
3. A man’s idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady’s idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.-Finley Peter Dunne
For the legal definition of Larceny and extra information on the subject, read further on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larceny
