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.
