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RAPINE, crim. law. This is almost indistinguishable from robbery. (q.v.) It is the felonious taking of another man's personal property, openly and by violence, against his will. The civilians define rapine to be the taking with violence, the movable property of another, with the fraudulent intent to appropriate it to one's own USC. Lec. El. Dr. Rom. Sec. 1071.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
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In March, 2007 the corpus of the Estonian dialects (7) contains five sub-dialects (8) of Voru: Hargla, Urvaste, Polva, Rapina and Vastseliina, and two sub-dialects of Setu: North Setu and West Setu.
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