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Criminal Law
Theft
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Undergraduate 2
02/25/2014

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Term
Definition of Theft
Definition
S1 Theft Act 1968
"a person is guilty of theft if he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it"
Term
Appropriation
Definition
S3(1) Theft Act 1968
"any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation, and this includes, where he has come to the property (innocently or not) without stealing it, any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner"
Term
Morris [1983]
Definition
Appropriation occurs when there is an assumption of any one of the rights of an owner
Term
Peoperty
Definition
S4(1) Theft Act 1968
"property includes money and all other property, real or personal, including things in action and other intangible property"
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