People desire wealth.
There are different ways of trying to get it. Since those of which the law approves are slow, uncertain and laborious, the temptation to take short-cuts is universal. �Thou shalt not steal' is a commandment against that material impatience.
At its widest theft is the wrongful reallocation of wealth obtained by others. Within this general idea, certain in the centre but blurred at the edges, the law has many choices to make. And as they are made the legal version of the wrong quickly becomes technical, differently in different systems. But the central case, the one of which all men agree that it is theft, stays the same. Dishonest, secret removal. The Romans thought furtum might be derived from fraus (fraud), which captures the element of dishonesty. Or from furvus, a word for â€?black' or â€?dark'. That catches the secrecy. Or from the verb ferre, meaning â€?carry'. Modern etymologists accept this last derivation. It shows that the archetype is taking away. That is a statement about the layman's perception, from a time before lawyers had been thought of. There is no reason why it should make profesÂsional lawyers feel uneasy. However much the law is made to twist and turn, the typical image of a thief is likely to remain the same for ever.
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