State v. . Jackson

Larceny at common law was confined to “goods and chattels”; it did not extend to land, because land could not be feloniously taken and carried away, except insignificant parcels thereof. S. v. Burrows, 33 N. C., 477; 36 C. J., 736, sec. 6. It, as a common law offense, is concerned with personal property only, and its nature has not been altered by the statutes making it larceny to steal things affixed to realty and severed therefrom by the thief. 36 C. J., 736, sec. 6. Therefore, it was not larceny, at common law, to steal anything adhering to the soil. S. v. Burrows, supra; 17 R. C. L., 33.

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