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larceny

Purloin vs Larceny - What's the difference?

purloin | larceny |


As a verb purloin

is to take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.

As a noun larceny is

the unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently.

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