[ad. L. asportātiōn-em, n. of action f. asportāre: see prec. and -ATION.] The action of carrying off; in Law, felonious removal of property (see quot. 1768).
1502. Arnold, Chron. (1811), 175. Suche asportacion or awey-berynge.
1654. Addr., in Sibbes’ Heavenly Conf., Wks. 1863, VI. 416. She dreams of a bodily asportation … of Christ.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., IV. 231. A bare removal from the place in which he found the goods, though the thief does not quite make off with them, is a sufficient asportation.
