THAINLAND, old Eng. law. The land which was granted by the Saxon kings to their thains or thanes was so called. Crabb's C. L. 10.

The name of a coin. The thaler of Prussia and of the northern states of Germany is deemed as money of account, at the custom-house, to be of the value of sixty-nine cents. Act of May 22, 1846.

2. The thaler of Bremen, of seventy-two grotes, is deemed of the value of seventy-one cents. Act of March 3, 1843.

THEFT, crimes. This word is sometimes used as synonymous with larceny¹, (q. v.) but it is not so technical. Ayliffe's Pand. 581 2 Swift's Dig. 309.

2. In the Scotch² law, this is a proper and technical word, and signifies the secret and felonious abstraction of the property of another for sake of lucre³, without his consent. Alison, Princ. Cr. Law of Scotl. 250.

THEFT-BOTE. The act of receiving a man's goods from the thief, after they had been stolen by him, with the intent that he shall escape punishment.

2. This is an offence punishable at common law by fine and imprisonment⁴. Hale's P. C. 130. Vide Compounding a felony.

THEOCRACY⁵. A species of government which claims to be immediately directed by God.

2. La religion qui, dans l'antiquite, s'associa souvent au despotisms, pour regner. par⁶ son bras ou a son ombrage, a quelquefois tents de regner seule. Clest ce qu'elle appelait le regne de Dieu, la thiocratie. Matter, De l'influence des Moeurs sur les lois, et de l'influence dos Lois sur les moeurs, 189. Religion, which in former tinies, frequently associated itself with despotism, to reign⁷, by its power, or under its shadow, has sometimes attempted to reign alone, and this she has called the reign of God, theocracy.