abreption
n. C2 Proficiency abrep·tion
n. a very old word for the act of taking something away by force or using it without permission. It is rarely used today and mostly appears in old books or legal documents.
n. the act of seizing or taking possession of something by force or without legal authority.
The old law described the act of taking land as an abreption.
In the legal treatise, the author discusses how an abreption of property could lead to a claim for damages.
The historian noted that the term abreption was frequently used in medieval statutes to describe the unauthorized removal of goods from a merchant's warehouse.
From Latin abreptus, perfect passive participle of abripiō (“snatch away”); from ab (“away”) + rapiō (“snatch”).