This is premeditated theft by color of authority.
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What do you mean by “color of authority”?
By the illegitimate authority of the government — e.g., they had no legal right to do what they did.
Basically, it means claiming to take action based on a ligitimate authority when that authority does not exist, or exceeds the legitimate authority.
An example I am dealing with personally is a case in which a person exercising judicial authority when there is no constitutional or other legal author for even the existence of the position he claims to occupy with the permission of a state supreme court.