ROB

A term of Arabic origin, applied by old pharmaceutical writers to thin extiacts or inspi ated juices. ROBBER Y (from the Germ, rauben, to rob), in Law, is defined a felonious taking of money or goods of any value from the person of another, or in his presence, against his will, by violence or putting him in fear; and this, whether the fear be of injury to the person's property or character. But it is nece ary that the fear he of immediate injury, not of some future injurious results; and then the money must, generally speaking, be taken immediately upon the threat made, and not afterwards given from fear of consequences. But the extortion of money by threat to accuse of an infamous crime was made robbery by 7 & 8 G. 4. c. 29. The law on the subject is now collected in the recent statute 1 Vict. c. 29.; and robbery is capital only when the robber "at the time, or immediately before or after," stabs, cuts, or wounds any person. ROBES, [s. 1074]