that cover this depending on how the stealing takes place

taking someone's stuff is larceny

for the stealing to count as larceny

you have to take it with the intent to permanently keep it from the owner

so taking Aunt Agnes' heirloom crystal gravy boat

because you want to sell it is larceny

where taking Aunt Agnes' heirloom crystal gravyboat

clubbing without her permission is not

because you plan to return it when you're done

that doesn't mean it's not a crime to borrow it

without permission but it's not as serious

now robbery is stealing but where you use violence to do it

larceny is just taking the stuff

robbery is taking it directly from the other person

rather than just walking off with it

burglary is theft combined with trespass on someone else's property

so if you are to enter, somehow, another person's property without their

permission then that's a burglary

some places require you to actually break into the property through some

force rather than just trespassing by itself

onto fraud. fraud is stealing someone's stuff

or really harming them at all through deception

so if you take something by lying that isn't yours

even if you have the owner's permission its fraud

there are a lot of different kinds of fraud in the world

internet fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, and so on

people will use incredibly complicated lies

to get their hands on someone else's stuff

of course if you say something untrue

but you don't know it's not true and you get someone's stuff as a result, that's not fraud

and there you have it

now that we've covered some ways to steal stuff

like larceny, robbery, burglary, and fraud

I need to write back to this Nigerian prince I know

apparently he needs a favor