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Auckland

If your land falls in an ideal area for a Waitemata-to-Manukau harbour canal, it may be confiscated.

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Across Auckland. Using the Auckland and Manukau Canal Act, 1908, the Auckland Harbour Board can “purchase or take or otherwise acquire” land for the purpose of constructing a harbour-to-harbour canal. It can take the land “from time to time, either within or without the limits of its jurisdiction”.

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Temple

Cattle thieves may be hanged on the spot.

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Wichita

One must get a permit from the city if they wish to take dirt from the airport.

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Tennessee

Stealing a horse is punishible by hanging.

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Michigan

It is legal for a robber to file a law suit, if he or she got hurt in your house.

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Louisiana

It is illegal to steal a “movable” even if it classified as an “immovable”.

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RS 14:68 Unauthorized use of a movable A. Unauthorized use of a movable is the intentional taking or use of a movable which belongs to another, either without the other’s consent, or by means of fraudulent conduct, practices, or representations, but without any intention to deprive the other of the movable permanently. The fact that…

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Louisiana

A law was passed with the specific intent of stating the punishment for stealing crayfish.

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RS 14:67.5 § 67.5. Theft of crawfish; penalty A. No person shall knowingly, willfully and intentionally fish or take any commercial crawfish from any crawfish farm, except with the consent of the owner thereof. B.(1) Whoever commits the crime of theft of crawfish when the misappropriation or taking amounts to a value of five hundred…

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Louisiana

It is illegal to rob a bank and then shoot at the bank teller with a water pistol.

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Kansas

It is illegal for chicken thieves to work during daylight hours.

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Florida

Penalty for horse theft is death by hanging.

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