Property offence – this legal term is applicable in the area of Criminal Law, where details illegal actions against someone’s movable or immovable property, with the intention to damage it or to gain benefit from it (i.e. to steal it), without the knowledge and permission of the property owner. These include destruction/damage, thievery, petit or grand larceny, shoplifting, etc.

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