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L A R 
the perfons preferved in the laren, or ark; the genius of 
which was His, the reputed parent of the world. He ob- 
ftrves farther, that they are defcribed as daemons and ge¬ 
nii, who once lived on earth, and were gifted with immor¬ 
tality. 
LAR, a river of Alia, which runs into the Behat ten 
miles north-weft of Cachemire. 
LAR, or La'ar, a city of Perfia, and capital of Larif- 
t«.n, fituated between mountains in a fandy foil. The 
lioufes are low, and each accompanied with a garden ; it 
contains feme bazars, feveral mofques, a caftle on a rock, 
and a palace where the governor refides. The Jews re- 
fide in a quarter by themfelves, and carry on a manufac¬ 
ture of filk ; and the Dutch have a factory here. In the 
environs are plantations of orangefe, tamarinds, and dates; 
and not far from the city, at the foot of a mountain, is 
found the fubltance called mummy , which fee defcribed un¬ 
der Mineralogy. Lar is 159 miles fouth-fouth-eaft of 
Schiras, and 120 weft of Ormus. Lat. 27. 20. N. Ion. 54. 
10. E. 
LA'RA, a toivn of Spain, in Old Caftile, on the Ar- 
danza : thirteen miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Burgos. 
LA'RA, or Laran'da, one of the Naiads, daughter of 
the river Alnion in Latium, famous for her beauty and 
her loquacity, which her parents long endeavoured to 
■cbrreCl, but in vain. She revealed to Juno the amours 
of her hufband Jupiter with Juturna, for which the god 
cut off her tongue, and ordered Mercury to conduct her 
to the infernal regions. The meffenger of the gods fell 
in love with her by the way, and gratified his pafiion. 
Lara became mother of two children, to whom the Ro¬ 
mans have paid divine honours, according to the opinion 
of fome, under the name of Lares. 1 Ovid. Fajl. 
LARA'CHA, Lara^che, or Lar ash', a feaport of 
Africa, iti the empire of Morocco, on the river of Luc- 
cos, near the Atlantic Ocean. The environs are inter¬ 
fered by woods and fome marlhes. Laracha was fortified 
at the end of the fixteenth century. In the year 1610, it 
was given up to the Spaniards, and retaken in the year 
1689. A fort built by the Spaniards, on the land fide, 
yet remains ; and the caftle on the fide of the road is de¬ 
fended by batteries clofe to the water’s edge. In the year 
1765, the French purfued two corfairs into the river, and 
bombarded the town. Europeans formerly carried on 
fome commerce here, and the river is of good depth : but 
in the year 1780, all the merchants were, by the command 
of the emperor, compelled to retire from the place. The 
large veffels of the emperor ufually winter here, as there 
are magazines for the refitting of iliips, but no docks for 
building ; the wood proper for which is too diftant, and 
the foil, which is merely land, not being fufficiently firm 
for the erecting of flocks. The road of Laracha is infe- 
cure in winter, when the winds freflien from the welt and 
fouth-weft 5 but there is no danger between the beginning 
of April and the end of September: thirty-three miles 
fouth of Tangiers. Lat. 34. 58. N. Ion. 6. 2. W. 
LARA'DA, a town of Tripoli: thirty miles fouth-eafl 
of Mefunula. 
LARA GNE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Higher Alps : nine miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Serres, 
and nine north-north-weft of Sifteron. 
LARAN'DA, in ancient geography, a town of Alia, 
in Cappadocia, belonging to Antiochiana, according to 
Ptolemy, who joins this canton to Lycaonia ; but by other 
authors it is united with Pilidia and I feu via. 
LARA'RIUM, f. A chapel which the Romans fre¬ 
quently had in their lioufes for the houfehold-gods, called 
lares. Spartian fays, that Alexander the fon of Mammeus 
kept in his lararium the figure of our Saviour, together 
with his other idols. 
LARAS'SA, a town of Alia, in Media, not far from 
Ecbatana. Ptolemy. 
LAR'BOARD, f. The left-hand fide of a {hip, when 
you ft and with your face to the head: oppoied to the Jlar- 
'ioard. Harris. 
LAR 
Tack to the larboard, and ftand off to lea. 
Veer (larboard fea and land. Drydcn. 
LAR'BORUM, in ancient geography, an epifcopal town 
of Alia, in Caria. 
LAR'BRICH, a hamlet in Lancalhire, near Prefton. 
Here is a chalybeate fpring, whofe water.is extremely cold : 
the hand, when put into it, grows immediately red, and 
is exceflively painful. Fifli of feveral forts, that have been 
put in, expired almoft: inftantly. 
LAR'CENY, j. [larcin, Fr. from latrocinium, Lat.] Petty 
theft.—Thofe laws would be very unjult, that (lionld 
chaftife murder and petty larceny with the fame punilli- 
ment. Speflator. 
It is divided into grand larceny, and petty larceny. 
Grand larceny is a felonious taking and carrying away 
the perfona) goods of another, above the value of i2d. 
not from the perfon, or by night, in the houfe of the 
owner. Petit larceny is when the goods ftolen do not ex¬ 
ceed the value of i2d. It agrees with grand larceny in 
all things except only the value of goods; fo that wher¬ 
ever any offence would be grand larceny if the thing itoleji 
was above i2d. value; it is petit larceny if it be but of 
that value, or under. H. P.C. 6 0,69. Blackltone diftin- 
guilhes the offence into Jimple larceny, or plain theft un¬ 
accompanied with any other atrocious circumftance; and 
mixed compound larceny, which alfo includes in it the ag¬ 
gravation of a taking from the houfe or perfon. 4 Comm, 
c. 17. And this divifion is now moll generally followed 
in law-books. 
I. Simple larceny is, “the felonious taking and carrying 
away of the perfonal goods of another.” 
x. It mull be a taking . This implies the confent of 
the owner to be wanting. Therefore no delivery of the 
goods from the owner to the offender, upon trull, can 
ground a larceny. As if A lends B a liorfe, and he rides 
away with him 5 or if one fends goods by a carrier, and 
he carries them away; thefe are no larcenies. 1 Hal. P. C. 
504. But, if the carrier opens a bale Sr pack of goods, 
or pierces a veffel of wine, and takes away part thereof, 
or if he carries it to the place appointed, and afterwards 
takes away the whole, thefe are larcenies; for here the 
animus furandi is manifelt, fince in the firlt cafe he had 
otherwife no inducement to open the goods, and in the 
fecond the trull was determined, the delivery having 
taken its effeft. 3 Injl. 107. But bare non-delivery lhall 
not of courfe be intended to arife from a felonious defign ; 
fince that may happen from a variety of other accidents. 
Neither by the common law was it larceny in any fervant 
to run away with the goods committed to him to keep, 
but only a breach of civil trull. But, by llatute 33 Hen. 
VI. c. 1, the fervants of perfons deceafed, accufed of em¬ 
bezzling their mailer’s goods, may, by writ out of Chan¬ 
cery, (ilfued by the advice of the two chief juftices and 
chief baron, or any two of them,) and proclamation made 
thereupon, be fummoned to appear perfonally in the court 
of King’s Bench, to anfwer their mailer’s executors in 
any civil fuit for l’uch goods ; and lhall, on default of ap¬ 
pearance, be attainted of felony. And, by Hat. 21 Hen. 
VIII. c. 7, if any iervant embezzle his mailer’s goods to 
the value of 40s. it is made felony; except in apprentices 
and fervants under eighteen years old. But, if he had 
not the pofleflion, but only the care and overfight of the 
goods, as the butler of plate, the Ihepherd of lheep, and 
the like, the embezzling of them is felony and larceny at 
common law. 1 Hal. P. C. 506. 3 Injl. 108. By the decla¬ 
ratory aft of 39 Geo. III. c. 85, entitled “An aft to pro- 
teft mailers again It embezzlements by their clerks orler- 
vants,” it is enafted and declared, that if any fervant or 
•clerk, or any perfon employed for the poirpole in the ca¬ 
pacity of a fervant or clerk, to any perfon or perfons 
whomloever, or to any body corporate or politic, {hall, by 
virtue of fuch employment, receive or take into his pol- 
feflion any money, goods, bond, bill, note, banker’s draft, 
or other valuable fecurity, or effefts, for, or in the name, 
or on the account, of Jiis mailer or mailers, or employer 
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