pillage; robbery. In the civil law, rapina fa defined as the forcible and violent taking of another man’s movable property with the criminal intent to appropriate it to the robber’s own use. A preetorian action lay for this offense, in which quadruple damages were recoverable. Gatus, lib. 8, § 209; Inst. 4, 2; Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 481; Heinecc. Elem. § 1071.