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*in ‘common usage’, theft is the ‘illegal taking’ of another person’s property/services without that person’s permission/consent with the intent to deprive the ‘rightful owner’ of it*
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(the word is also used as an informal shorthand term for some crimes against property, such as burglary, embezzlement, larceny, looting, robbery, shoplifting, library theft, and fraud (i.e., obtaining money under false pretenses))
(in some jurisdictions, theft is considered to be synonymous with larceny; in others, theft has replaced larceny)
(someone who carries out an act of or makes a career of theft is known as a “thief”)
(the act of theft is also known by other terms such as stealing, thieving, and “filching”)
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(“theft” is the name of a ‘statutory offense’ in ‘california’, ‘canada’, ‘england’ and ‘wales’, Hong Kong, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and the Australian states of ‘south australia’ + ‘victoria’)
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