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v. t. e. Robbery (from Old French rober ("to steal, ransack, etc."), from Proto-West Germanic *rauba ("booty")) [1] is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by use of fear. According to common law, robbery is defined as taking the property of another, with the intent to permanently deprive the ...
Grave robbery. Grave robbery, tomb robbing, or tomb raiding is the act of uncovering a grave, tomb or crypt to steal commodities. It is usually perpetrated to take and profit from valuable artefacts or personal property. [n 1] A related act is body snatching, a term denoting the contested or unlawful taking of a body (usually from a grave ...
Desecration of a Jewish cemetery in Bielsko-Biała, Poland, June 2021. The desecration of graves involves intentional acts of vandalism, theft, or destruction in places where humans are interred, such as body snatching or grave robbing. It has long been considered taboo to desecrate or otherwise violate graves or grave markers of the deceased ...
t. e. Schadenfreude (/ ˈʃɑːdənfrɔɪdə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another. It is a borrowed word from German; the English word for it is epicaricacy ...
Extortion is the practice of obtaining benefit (e.g., money or goods) through coercion. In most jurisdictions it is likely to constitute a criminal offence; the bulk of this article deals with such cases. Robbery is the simplest and most common form of extortion, although making unfounded threats in order to obtain an unfair business advantage ...
Maneuvering the Apostles", which has the same meaning, was derived from this expression. [6] [7] In patchwork, "Rob Peter to pay Paul" is an alternative name for the Drunkard's Path patchwork block. [8]
Bank robbery is the criminal act of stealing from a bank, specifically while bank employees and customers are subjected to force, violence, or a threat of violence. This refers to robbery of a bank branch or teller, as opposed to other bank-owned property, such as a train, armored car, or (historically) stagecoach.
Robbing may go on between hives in one apiary or hives of different apiaries. Among the races of the Western honeybee, the Italian bee has been identified with an especially strong tendency to rob. Defence measures. Robbing can be prevented by reducing the entrances of the hive so the attacked hive has a better chance of defending itself.