RAN, in the old English writers, means open or public robbery, so manifest as not to be denied. Ran dici tur aperta rapina qua negari non potest. Lamb. 125. Leg. Canut. cap. 58. Hence it is now commonly said of one who takes the goods of another injuriously and violently, that he has taken or snatched all he could rap and ran.
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