Asportation

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The illegal movement of goods or carrying away of a person. countable, uncountable

    "Kidnapping usually includes the seizing, confining, and carrying away (asportation) of another by force, threat, or deception, and without consent."

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air expressairfreightairliftbanditrybearingcarriage

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"Kidnapping usually includes the seizing, confining, and carrying away (asportation) of another by force, threat, or deception, and without consent."

Etymology

From Latin asportatio.

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