Black Adder
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Sometimes a particular wrong can sometimes be treated as both criminal and civil. But many property type cases will be treated as civil because in cases like this many times there is an agreement or contract. A breach of contract is not a crime, it is a civil wrong, with civil remedies.
A critical phrase. Was there, in fact, a genuine agreement, and one party then decides to breach? Or was there never a real agreement, and did the other party deceive and lie, with criminal intent, intend from the very beginning to steal the snakes?
Bear in mind that when capable parties make purported agreements, especially written ones, those agreements are given considerable weight. Proving criminal intent and fraud can be difficult.
Which is exactly what I was trying to illustrate earlier
It appeared the two parties did have an agreement and it became a breach of that agreement and getting a judicial system to find that a criminal offense may prove difficult
Which leaves you with civil which across state lines at the moment is extremely difficult and usually mostly unsuccessfull and cost prohibitive
Do Not ask me how I know this.........