Sentences with phrase «commit larceny»

Shoplifting is defined as «entering a commercial establishment with intent to commit larceny while that establishment is open during regular business hours, where the value of the property that is taken or intended to be taken does not exceed nine hundred fifty dollars ($ 950).»

Given that PETA has a history of committing larceny, a history of getting animals under false pretenses, a history of lying to people who surrender their animals, and a history of underreporting killing, there is simply no reason to trust its reporting to VDACS.

If you take the phone home with the intention of finding the owner then you have not committed larceny because you have not committed the mental element («mens rea») of the offence: you don't intend to permanently deprive the owner of their rights.

If you take the phone home with the intention of keeping it («finders keepers») then you have committed larceny (sometimes called «theft», sometimes correctly).

Not exact matches

«The Legislature did the best they could,» Hendrickson said Tuesday «They did a good job of preventing Governor Cuomo from committing grand larceny.

Critics say the city law shields undocumented aliens who commit serious offenses, including sexual abuse, prescription drug sales, bribery, money laundering, harassment, grand larceny and drunk driving, from federal detention and deportation.

She interrogated the mayor in Albany earlier this year about the wide range of offenses, including forcible touching and grand larceny, that foreign nationals can commit in the five boroughs and still dodge deportation thanks to city policies.

«We can help disrupt the supply of this poison that is killing people at an alarming rate,» Flynn said, adding that those suffering from opiate addiction who commit non-violent crimes such as petty larceny will receive treatment rather than a prison sentence.

Alex (Dylan Minnette), Rocky (Jane Levy) and Rocky's boyfriend Money (Daniel Zovatto) are low - rent Detroit kids who commit petty theft on the houses protected by the security company that employs Alex's father, careful to avoid anything that would make them guilty of grand larceny.

This type of theft, which is known as larceny, is the most common way acts of grand theft auto are committed.