abigeat

Definitions

Theft of cattle by driving it away with the intention of feloniously appropriating it.

archaic, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“But the driving away of goods, or taking away, and detaining, another mans boat, without violence, by the number⟳ of 10 preſent, is a wrong, unwarrantable, and oppreſſive act, and a ſort of abigeat and thift, but is not properly a ryot […]”

“The contracting Republics [...] do hereby agree⟳, reciprocally, to surrender⟳ persons [...] having committed [...] any of the following crimes, to wit: homicide, [...] abigeat (cattle stealing), [...] and, in general, any crime or offense”

“The shepherds of the Golden Age let⟳ their flocks out to pasture without fearing the abigeat, they feared only the wild beasts.”

CEFR level