Questions tagged [theft]
For questions about criminal deprivation of property as well as property torts
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Is it legal to intentionally surge & destroy neighbor's electrical equipment when they steal your residential power?
A friend of mine who worked in contracting/construction told me an interesting story about how a neighbor of theirs was stealing power via a sneaky buried extension cable from their home. They thief ...
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Who is liable when an apartment complex's worker signs for a high value package, claims he immediately returned to sender, but no record of doing so? [closed]
Apartment complex mailman signed for a package worth $1,200. Upon the package's arrival, the item was signed and received by the apartment complex's mailman. Immediately after, I received a call from ...
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What is legal in retrieving stolen property?
In another forum (next door to this one), someone in my local community made the claim (paraphrased here)
I encountered a person rummaging through my car and stole some things.
This person took off ...
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What title transfers take place in the case of theft from a bank account?
In the case of theft involving taking money from a bank account, does the person whose account the money comes from loose good title to that money, or the debt it represents, or anything? Does the ...
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Who is the rightful owner of stolen property? [closed]
Our mother is 100 years old and has been declared incapacitated due to dementia.
In 1969, when I was 15 and my brother was 17, our Mom instructed us to go to her mother's home and steal an item that ...
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Can I steal if it's my stuff [duplicate]
So a little while ago, I dated this one girl. She cheated on me, and after that my watch just went missing. My watch is a prized possession that I got after graduating. I searched everywhere for it, ...
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Legality of obtaining stolen digital content
Suppose I buy a stolen video game account and then get caught.
Obviously, the police wouldn’t really care about a game account but that’s just my example.
The reason I am wondering is because couldn’t ...
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What does the law say if someone locks their bicycle to mine? [duplicate]
Say I park my bicycle, lock it, and then a few hours later when I come back I find someone has locked their bicycle to mine.
What does the law say:
Do they commit a crime by removing my ability to ...
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What is theft when not permanent
I was looking into the definition of theft in the UK and found (emphasis mine):
Theft is defined by section 1 of the Theft Act 1968 as the dishonest appropriation of property belonging to another ...
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Is it legal to remove a phone from a driver's hand?
Alice and Bob are in a car together; Alice is driving. While on the road, she picks up her phone and begins texting. Is it legal for Bob to take the phone from her until she parks? Normally this would ...
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Is it legal to hide a recording device in a public place to collect evidence if an item is stolen?
Is it legal to hide an inexpensive smartphone or other recording device in a public place in order to obtain evidence if an item such as a bicycle is stolen?
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Is a person guilty of theft if they hold a sincere but mistaken belief that they own the stolen property? [duplicate]
Alice believes, on good reason, that an item belongs to her, but in fact it belongs to Bob. If Alice attempts to take the item for herself, is she guilty of theft? What if Alice already has the item ...
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Items that a thief wasn't expecting --- does it count as theft of that item?
In New Jersey, according to the Defense Against Porch Pirates Act (https://pub.njleg.gov/bills/2020/A4000/3870_I1.HTM), if someone steals a package that includes certain things (such as research ...
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How many mints can I take before before it's legally wrong?
While reading this question I tried to think about analogous situations. Unfortunately, that just created a second situation I didn't understand.
Imagine a restaurant, with a big bowl of after-dinner ...
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Theft without charge; post-factum permission [duplicate]
I'm curious about what constitutes a violation of the law in the State of New York (but other jurisdictions would be interesting to me, too).
The scenario is that an adult takes something of ...
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