Voorbeelden van highway robbery

• Highway robbery itself has no fixed legal punishment.

• Highway robbery accounted for only about 6 per cent of indictments but was more than eight times better represented among the unsolved-crime reports.

• Crimes of desertion, highway robbery, and mendicants (so-called "cas prvtaux") were under the supervision of the "prvt des marchaux", who exacted quick and impartial justice.

• Examples of aggravated larceny included highway robbery, burglary, attacks by footpads and piracy.

• Under the law as it was, these persons received existing use value, which was nothing short of highway robbery.

• All the motoring public are deeply resentful of this dishonest example of what cannot better be described than highway robbery.

• How can it continue to subsidise those routes when this new piece of highway robbery goes through?

• It is highway robbery to charge full price for something worth a few pence.