Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A carrying away or off.
- noun In criminal law, the felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited. It may be theft, though the goods be not carried from the house or apartment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) The felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited.
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- noun law The
felonious movement ofgoods
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Examples
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That ` s called asportation, and that ` s what we have here, right, Greg Skordas?
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I think it's more properly what's called if you believe that's what happened, it's a false imprisonment, where you've said I've got you here, because kidnapping generally requires some movement, that you've got to -- "asportation" is the legal term.
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GRACE: In kidnapping, there has to be an element called "asportation," which is movement, like I put you in my car and drive you away, or it could be as simply as a few inches of forced movement.
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In DC, for example, asportation is not a requierd element of kidnapping.
Physical assault, head shaving, a chocolate with a liver center... Ann Althouse 2007
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It ` s my understanding, and I ` ve got the Nevada statute right here, kidnapping does include carrying away a person, but that would include even the smallest asportation of pushing them up against a wall.
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Why is it that the father and the mother are not charged with kidnapping, in that they forced the child, they moved him, that ` s asportation (ph) under kidnapping, and forced him into this little dog cage?
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GRACE: And you know that under kidnapping, you can move someone an inch and that qualifies under asportation.
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And then you ` ve got -- a capital case is going to where you ` ve got a child, kidnapping, asportation (ph) of the body ...
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Indeed, short of getting it upon a trolley or taking 'the steering' down, its asportation could not be compassed.
Jonah and Co. Dornford Yates 1922
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The theft of slaves is a crime; they are a subject-matter of felonious asportation.
jmjarmstrong commented on the word asportation
JM is transported by a disreputable asportation mob masquerading as a political party.
July 25, 2010
qms commented on the word asportation
The skid row crook soon comes to grief;
His course to shame and jail is brief.
But the mortifications
Of mere asportations
Are spared the grander Wall Street thief.
January 19, 2015