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n. In criminal law, the carrying away of any person by force or fraud. Leading someone away by force or fraudulent persuasion. In some jurisdictions, there must be the intent to marry or defile the person. Some require the victim to be a child or there must be an intent to force the party into marriage or into prostitution. 

 - (Law) The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress. The abduction must be without consent or by fraud or violence and for an illegal or ...