rob erds man, rob berdsman, robertsman

[Said to be named after Robin Hood, the celebrated outlaw of Sherwood Forest.] In the old statutes, a term applied to any bold robber or night thief. In Piers Plowman they are termed Roberdes knaves. "Robbers men, or Robberdsmen , were a sort of great thieves mentioned in the statutes (5 Edw. 3, .) of whom Coke says, that Robin Hood lived in the reign of King Richard I., on the borders of England and Scotland by robbery, burning of houses, rapine and spoil, ., and that these Robberdsmen took name from him." as a penal station. Robben Island-snake, s . Zool.: Coronella phocarum . [ROB, v .] IMG:content-0693.png:[blocks in formation] "The felonious and forcible taking, from the person of another, of goods or money to any value, by violence or putting him in fear. (1) There must be a taking, otherwise it is no robbery . (2) It is immaterial of what value the thing taken is; a penny as well as a pound, thus forcibly extorted, makes a robbery . (3) Lastly, the taking must be by force, or a previous putting in fear; which makes the violation of the person more atrocious than privately stealing. This previous violence, or putting in fear, is the criterion that distinguishes robbery from other larcenies." - Black stone : Comment., bk. iv., ch. 17.