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  2. Construction equipment theft - Wikipedia

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    Construction equipment theft, is the criminal act of stealing or attempting to steal construction equipment, including all type of heavy equipments. Construction equipment theft has been recognized as a significant problem in the United States and elsewhere in the world, including Canada , Australia , Europe , and Japan .

  3. Lesser included offense - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, larceny is a lesser included offense in the offense of robbery, as every robbery includes a larcenous act as part of the crime. Assault is also a lesser included offense of robbery, just as false imprisonment is usually a lesser included offense of kidnapping. However, an offense will not be a lesser included offense if it carries a ...

  4. Property crime - Wikipedia

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    Larceny is the unlawful taking of another person's property with the intention to deprive the owner of it. If the stolen object is above a large value, then it is considered a felony and is called a grand theft. A petty theft is stealing an object with small value which would pass as a misdemeanor.

  5. False pretenses - Wikipedia

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    But in R v Jones [1898] 1 QB 119, an English court found that it is neither larceny nor false pretences, but an offence under the Debtors Act 1869, of obtaining credit by fraud. [6] R v Danger [26] revealed a lacuna in the law. This was remedied by section 90 of the Larceny Act 1861. That section was replaced by section 32(2) of the Larceny Act ...

  6. Theft by finding - Wikipedia

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    In some jurisdictions, the crime is called "larceny by finding" or "stealing by finding". [2] [3] By nation. England and Wales. In England and Wales, a theft ...

  7. Major Crimes Act - Wikipedia

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    A felony under section 661 of this title (i.e. larceny) The constitutionality of the Major Crimes Act was upheld in United States v. Kagama (118 U.S. 375 (1886)), a case in which two Indians were prosecuted for killing another Indian on a reservation. While the Court agreed that the prosecution of major crimes did not fall within Congress's ...

  8. Continuing trespass - Wikipedia

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    A continuing trespass is: . a wrongful act involving a course of action which is a direct invasion of the rights of another. [1]a trespass in the taking of goods, although without intent to appropriate them, followed by an appropriation, the original trespass being deemed to continue to the time of the appropriation, so that the subsequent appropriation is larceny.

  9. Parallel construction - Wikipedia

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    One DEA official had told Reuters: "Parallel construction is a law enforcement technique we use every day. It's decades old, a bedrock concept." An example from one official about how parallel construction tips work is being told by Special Operations Division that: "Be at a certain truck stop at a certain time and look for a certain vehicle."