Legal Term: ANIMUS FURANDI

Definition: crim. law. The intention to steal. In order to comstitute larceny, (q. v.) the thief must take the property anino furandi, but this, is expressed in the definition of larceny by the word felonious. 3 Inst. 107, Hale, 503, 4. Bl. Com. 229. Vide 2 Russ. on Cr. 96, 2 Tyler"s R. 272. When the taking of property is lawful, although it may afterwards be converted animo furandi to the taker"s use, it is not larceny. 3 Inst. 108, Bac. Ab. Felony, C, 14 Johns. R. 294, Ry. & Mood. C. C. 160, Id. 137, Prin. of Pen. Law, c. 22, 3, p. 279, 281.

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