noun
definition
The act of stealing property.
Examples of thefts in a Sentence
In 1522 the bishop of Carlisle complained to Cardinal Wolsey, then archbishop of York, that the English thieves committed more thefts than "all the Scots of Scotland," the men of Hexham being worst of all, and appearing loo strong at the markets held in Hexham, so that the men whom they had robbed dared not complain or "say one word to them."
I got charged with three Class C burglaries and three thefts by unauthorized taking and a criminal mischief.
We work closely with Royal Mail to combat these thefts.
The guidance judgment in January of Lord Woolf, Lord Chief Justice, on mobile phone thefts, increased custody.
Millions of men perpetrated against one another such innumerable crimes, frauds, treacheries, thefts, forgeries, issues of false money, burglaries, incendiarisms, and murders as in whole centuries are not recorded in the annals of all the law courts of the world, but which those who committed them did not at the time regard as being crimes.
After a life of small-time jobs and petty thefts you 've been accepted into America 's most famous criminal organization.
There has been a spate of thefts of road tax disks from cars in our area.
Horse tack thefts yet again There have been a number of horse tack thefts in the area.
Four percent of identity thefts happen when thieves steal the mail of an individual to gather personal information, according to the United States Postal Service.
One of the problems is that sometimes these thefts occur on a national or international scale.
Living in an area that has a high incidence of vehicle thefts, or putting a lot of mileage on your vehicle each year, will mean higher insurance costs.
The Prometheus was the center of many storylines including two thefts - the first on Earth and the second during the series 8th season when Vala took the ship from General Hammond, with Daniel onboard.
He's checking reported vehicle thefts in the area.
Libels, insults, &c., resistance to public authority, offences against good customs, thefts and frauds, have increased; assaults are nearly stationary.
They acted also as police courts in the case of petty thefts, breaches of the peace and the like.
It includes within its limits the once famous district of the "Kroumirs," 2 a tribe whose occasional thefts of cattle across the frontier gave the French an excuse to invade Tunisia in 1881.
Tammany and Hoffman were again victorious in 1870; but in 1871 the New York Times disclosed the magnitude of Tammany's thefts, amounting in the erection of the New York county court house alone to almost $8,000,000, and Tweed and his " Ring " were crushed in consequence.
Horse tack thefts yet again There have been a number of horse tack thefts yet again There have been a number of horse tack thefts in the area.