RAPINA

rapina (r[schwa]-pI-n[schwa]). [Latin “robbery, pillage”] Roman & civil law. The forcible taking of another’s movable property with the intent to appropriate it to one’s own use. “Rapina is the taking away of a thing by violent means. It gives rise to the praetorian actio vi bonorum raptorum ….” Rudolph Sohm, The Institutes: A Textbook of […]