Abigeus
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Abigeus is a noun meaning (law, UK, obsolete) A thief who steals livestock in large quantities.
Meaning
(law, UK, obsolete) A thief who steals livestock in large quantities.
Example Sentences
The stealing of a single horse or ox might make a man an abigeus, but it seems that the crime could not be committed on less than four pigs or ten sheep.
In the Civil Law, he was accounted an Abigeus who carried off one Horse or one Ox, or four Swine or ten Sheep; if he took a smaller Number of Swine or Sheep, he was reckoned a Fur rather than an Abigeus.
It is obvious why the thief of only one domestic animal was not treated so severely as an abigeus. The reason for the severe punishment of rustlers, abigei, was the need of a stronger protection for agricultural interest, particularly in countries where these offenses were more frequent.
Word Forms
- abigei
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