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asportation
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From
Latin
asportatio
.
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asportation
(
countable
and
uncountable
,
plural
asportations
)
(
law
)
The
illegal
movement
of
goods
or carrying away of a person.
2011
, James W. H. McCord,
Criminal Law and Procedure for the Paralegal
, page
128
:
Kidnapping usually includes the seizing, confining, and carrying away (
asportation
) of another by force, threat, or deception, and without consent.
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