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 the History and System of

Roman Private Law 419 (James Crawford Ledlie trans., 3d ed. 1907). [Blacks Law 8^th]