CONTRECTATION

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

  CONTRECTATION. The ability to be removed. In order to commit a larceny, the 
  property must have been removed. When, from its nature, it is incapable of 
  contrectation, as real estate, there can be no larceny. Bowy. Mod. Civ. Law, 
  268. See Larceny Furtum est contrectatio rei fraudulosa. Dig. 47, 2. See 
  Taking.