La Latrocinium

1. Military service for pay.
2. (figuratively) Robbery, banditry, highway robbery, piracy, brigandage; pillage, plundering.
3. (figuratively) An act of banditry or brigandage.
4. (figuratively) A band of robbers.
5. (figuratively) Villany, roguery, fraud.
6. (figuratively, ecclesiastical, derogatory) A term of abuse for church councils held to be illegitimate, especially the Second Council of Ephesus.