ABIGEAT

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ABIGEAT, civ. law, A particular kind of larceny, which is committed not by
  taking and carrying away the property from one place to another, but by
  driving a living thing away with an intention of feloniously appropriating
  the same. Vide Taking.