Larceny is a crime involving the wrongful acquisition of the personal property of another person.

Masayoshi's son, Matsukata Kōjirō ( 1865 – 1950 ), invested his significant personal fortune in the acquisition of several thousand examples of Western painting, sculpture and decorative arts.

Philip II donated his personal collection of documents to the building, and also undertook the acquisition of the finest libraries and works of Spain and foreign countries.

The Grierson-Blumenthal stake was a " forced " acquisition by the group ; it had originally been a personal holding of Charles Forte and fellow directors of the group, supplying liquor to Forte restaurants and hotels at substantial personal profit until concern in the late 1970s about prosecution under the Companies Act obliged the directors to incorporate Grierson-Blumenthal as a subsidiary.

The personal score against Messerschmitt is one of the likely reasons that Willy Messerschmitt was not allowed to personally acquire the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke until July 1938, resulting in the continued use of the Bf prefix throughout the entire war for Messerschmitt aircraft designed before Messerschmitt's acquisition of the company, hence the " Bf -" prefix being the only one used for the Messerschmitt Bf 109, as one example, in all official German documents throughout the entirety of World War II in Europe, dealing with all pre-July 1938 origin Messerschmitt aircraft designs.

Ichthyology has also been a part of Academy collections and research since its beginnings, but the size of the collection was relatively modest until acquisition of Edward Drinker Cope's personal collections in 1898.

The Federal Trade Commission launched an investigation into DoubleClick's collection and compilation of personal information shortly after the Abacus acquisition, in reaction to which DoubleClick announced that it would not merge the DoubleClick and Abacus databases.

" The folkeskole shall — in co-operation with the parents — further the pupils ' acquisition of knowledge, skills, working methods and ways of expressing themselves and thus contribute to the all-round personal development of the individual pupil.

* Clothe the Soldier project provided human engineering support to the Army's acquisition of over 24 new items of state-of-the-art soldier protective clothing and personal equipment

* 2005: The acquisition of IBM's personal computer and laptop unit by Lenovo was approved by President George W. Bush

In 2005, after completing its acquisition of IBM ’ s personal computing business, Lenovo announced the ThinkCentre E Series desktops, designed specifically for small businesses.

FEANI defines CPD as the acquisition of knowledge, experience and skills, as well as, the development of personal qualities.

Franks used personal influence on behalf of the Museum to help in the acquisition of collections.

* The purchase of The Dial Corporation in 2004 was the biggest acquisition in the history of the company until then: This renowned U. S. personal care and household cleaning products company gave Henkel a strong foothold on the North American market.

As part of the Shand acquisition, Markel Corp. also acquired American Underwriting Managers, an insurance underwriter in Pewaukee, Wisconsin specializing in personal boat and motorcycle insurance.

The acquisition of sufficient knowledge leading to possession of personal tjurunga was long, difficult and sometimes extremely painful.

Belle da Costa Greene, Morgan's personal librarian, became the first director and continued the aggressive acquisition and expansion of the collections of illuminated manuscripts, authors ' original manuscripts, incunabula, prints, and drawings, early printed Bibles, and many examples of fine bookbinding.

No corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital of another corporation engaged also in commerce, where the effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the acquisition, or to restrain such commerce in any section or community, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce.

Section 7 is designed to arrest in its incipiency not only the substantial lessening of competition from the acquisition by one corporation of the whole or any part of the stock of a competing corporation, but also to arrest in their incipiency restraints or monopolies in a relevant market which, as a reasonable probability, appear at the time of suit likely to result from the acquisition by one corporation of all or any part of the stock of any other corporation.

The statutory policy of fostering free competition is obviously furthered when no supplier has an advantage over his competitors from an acquisition of his customer's stock likely to have the effects condemned by the statute.

We repeat, that the test of a violation of 7 is whether, at the time of suit, there is a reasonable probability that the acquisition is likely to result in the condemned restraints.

The conclusion upon this record is inescapable that such likelihood was proved as to this acquisition.

In the rare case where a corporation's only substantial asset, or its most important one, is a claim for refund, perhaps its transfer should not be permitted, whether the reorganization takes the form of a statutory merger or of the acquisition of assets for stock.

This acquisition is a matched, perfect set -- consisting of two sofas six feet long, plus six sidechairs and two armchairs.

Reality is considered not only irrelevant to the acquisition of higher knowledge, but a positive handicap.

One view, especially held in evolutionary psychology, is that the presence of venomous spiders led to the evolution of a fear of spiders or made acquisition of a fear of spiders especially easy.

This imagery is used for everything from navigational aids, search and rescue, and target acquisition.

For example a target acquisition element can send a message with target details which is automatically routed through the tactical and technical fire control elements to deliver firing data to the gun's laying system and the gun automatically laid.

Target acquisition can take many forms, it is usually observation in real time but may be the product of analysis.

Survey is also essential for some target acquisition devices.

Thus, if a publicly traded company specialises in the acquisition of privately held companies, from a per-share perspective there is a gain with every acquisition that falls within these guidelines.

Bootstrapping is a theory of language acquisition.

InBev was the second-largest beer-producing company in the world and Anheuser-Busch held the third spot, but after the acquisition of Anheuser-Busch by InBev, the new Anheuser-Busch InBev company is currently the largest brewer in the world.

These capacitors are biased above the threshold for inversion when image acquisition begins, allowing the conversion of incoming photons into electron charges at the semiconductor-oxide interface ; the CCD is then used to read out these charges.

Colonialism is the establishment, exploitation, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory.

David is also viewed as a tragic figure ; his acquisition of Bathsheba, and the loss of his son are viewed as his central tragedies.

As of 2009, the most common acquisition medium for digitally projected features is 35 mm film scanned and processed at 2K ( 2048 × 1080 ) or 4K ( 4096 × 2160 ) via digital intermediate.

The Hohenzollerns made Ansbach the seat of their dynasty until their acquisition of the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1415.

The Attlee Government also extended the powers of local authorities to requisition houses and parts of houses, and made the acquisition of land less difficult than before.

This acquisition made Compaq, at the time, the world's second largest computer maker in the world in terms of revenue behind I. B. M.

The world's largest derivatives exchanges ( by number of transactions ) are the Korea Exchange ( which lists KOSPI Index Futures & Options ), Eurex ( which lists a wide range of European products such as interest rate & index products ), and CME Group ( made up of the 2007 merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade and the 2008 acquisition of the New York Mercantile Exchange ).

* Hartley's in the United Kingdom ( although most Hartley's Jellies are, since their acquisition from Rowntree's, made without Gelatin, see Gelatin Substitutes below )

Although it is difficult to determine without invasive measures which exact parts of the brain become most active and important for language acquisition, fMRI and PET technology has allowed for some conclusions to be made about where language may be centered.

In 2005, PGP Corporation made its first acquisition — the German software company Glück & Kanja Technology AG, which is now PGP Deutschland AG.

It was the most expensive acquisition made by Cisco to date, and only the acquisition of Scientific Atlanta has been larger.

The deal ultimately earned David Geffen an estimated US $ 800 million in stock ( until the Japanese conglomerate, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd .' s cash acquisition of MCA in 1991, made Geffen a billionaire ) and an employment contract that ran until 1995.

The channel's success made a bona-fide mogul of founder Ted Turner and set the stage for the Time Warner conglomerate's eventual acquisition of Turner Broadcasting.

Since taking over in 1992, the only noticeable attempt he made to upgrade the roster was the acquisition of Hextall.

Like most expansion teams, the Timberwolves struggled in their early years ; but after the acquisition of Kevin Garnett in the 1995 NBA Draft, the team made the playoffs eight consecutive times from 1997 to 2004.

Off-season free agent acquisition Sean Avery caused a media uproar over comments he made to a Canadian reporter about ex-girlfriend Elisha Cuthbert and her then-current relationship with Flames ' defenseman Dion Phaneuf before a game in Calgary.

He reunites with Angel and seems genuinely pleased to see him, but is disgusted to find that Angel has a soul ( whether or not Spike in fact knew that Angel's acquisition of a soul is why he left the group nearly a century before has never been made clear ) and is in love with the current Slayer, Buffy Summers.

To inject more realism into the training, ATC made arrangements with Strategic Air Command to allow instructor pilots to fly intercept missions against SAC bombers with F-86D ( later L ) Sabre, With the addition of interceptor crew training and the acquisition of interceptor aircraft, HQ USAF decided effective 20 October 1953 to assign ATC responsibility for supporting Air Defense Command's interceptor forces.

After the acquisition was finalized, plans were made to extend the Lexington and Eastern Railroad from Jackson to a town named McRoberts.

The territorial acquisition in Baranya was not made a part of Slavonia, even though adjacent to Osijek, because pre-1918 administrative divisions were disestablished by the new kingdom.

An initial acquisition of 108, 000 acres ( 169 mi² / 437 km² ) was made, and it was estimated that the camp would cost $ 22, 800, 000 for the land, facilities, and development of utilities.

John Robert Seeley a Cambridge Professor of History said " Our acquisition of India was made blindly.

Prior to the acquisition of Sim developer Maxis by Electronic Arts in 1997, plans were originally made in 1996 to develop SimCity 3000 as a fully 3D game, in tune with the emergence ( at the time ) of 3D computer and video games.

The company invested significantly in rolling stock, with significant orders for new trains placed and the fleet later further grown through the acquisition of trains made surplus by other companies.

Meanwhile, several additions have been made to Nine News teams around the country, as well as the acquisition of more reporters by A Current Affair and also state-based Today reporters ( plus a Weekend Today weather presenter ).