2007-01-18 01:19:53 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
The Theft Act describes theft as being the dishonest appropriation (taking) of property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving him of it.
Therefore it must be dishonest -- accidental taking doesn't count. Nor does helping yourself from a display of things evidently put there for people to help themselves to.
The property taken must belong to another person, which means basically that it isn't yours. If you pick up something lying in the street, that is theft by finding. If you help yourself to the contents of a skip, that is theft.
As it is the taker's intention to deprive the other person permanently of the thing taken, borrowing something intending to return it doesn't count as theft.
If you take something belonging to me on the basis that I'm a very kind sort of person and if I were there would have no objection to your having it, you have a defence to theft.
2007-01-18 06:26:35 · answer #1 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The statutory definition of Theft has 5 elements:
1To dishonestly
2 appropriate
3 property
4 belonging to another
5 with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it.
All elements must be proven in order for a person charged with theft to be convicted.
2007-01-18 02:38:40 · answer #2 · answered by Valli 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Theft is when someone takes a possesion which doesn't/never has belonged to them in the first place.
2007-01-18 01:22:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theft
–noun
1.the act of stealing; the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods or property of another; larceny.
2.an instance of this.
3.Archaic. something stolen.
2007-01-18 01:28:07 · answer #4 · answered by Lisa G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are five elements to 'theft' in English law:
Dishonest
Appropriation of
Property which
Belongs to another
With the intention of depriving them of it permanently.
All five elements need to be satisfied.
2007-01-18 01:29:02 · answer #5 · answered by Matt 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The act of stealing; the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods or property of another; larceny.
2007-01-18 03:08:09 · answer #6 · answered by CrunchyCookies...Leeds...x 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple explanation: Someone takes your stuff.
2007-01-18 01:24:41 · answer #7 · answered by Joseph Manners 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Taking of an item without the consent of the rightful owner.
2007-01-18 01:23:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To dishonestly appropriate property belonging to another!
Take something that is not yours and keep it!
Simple really.
2007-01-18 07:22:24 · answer #9 · answered by Sally J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Taking something that doesn't belong to you without permission from the owner.
2007-01-18 01:23:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋