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breaking and entering
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break in
break in : to enter something (as a building or computer system) without privilege (as consent) or by force … break in : to enter something (as a building or computer system) without privilege (as consent) or by force
break in
break in : to enter something (as a building or computer system) without privilege (as consent) or by force … break in : to enter something (as a building or computer system) without privilege (as consent) or by force
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Burglary
Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another in the nighttime with intent to commit a felony therein whether the felonious
Burglary
[fr. burg, Sax., a house, and larron, a thief, fr. latro, Lat.]. At Common Law burglary is the breaking and entering of the dwelling-house of another in the night-time with intent to commit a felony therein. S. 25 of … commit a felony therein. S. 25 of the (English) Larceny Act, 1916, provides that- Means the act of breaking and entering an inhabited structure (as a house) especially at night with intent to commit a felony (as murder or
break
break broke [brōk] bro·ken [brō-kən] break·ing [brā-ki] vt 1 a : violate transgress [ the law] b : to … real property) by force or without privilege (as consent) for entry often used in the phrase break and enter [one who s and enters a dwelling-house of another "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] b
enter
to come or go into [he breaks into and s a vehicle "Code of Alabama"] see also break, breaking and entering 2 : record register 3 : to put in correct form before a court or on a record
burglary
[Anglo-French burglarie, modification of Medieval Latin burgaria, from burgare to break into (a house)] : the act of breaking and entering an inhabited structure (as a house) esp. at night with intent to commit a felony (as murder or
Housebreaking
The act of breaking open and entering with a felonious purpose the dwelling house of another whether done by day or night See Burglary and
Domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium
case, (1605) 5 Rep. 91; 1 Sm. L.C., 1, in which the extent of a sheriff's power to break doors was discussed, and five points resolved, the first being that every man's house 'is to him as … Burdett v. Abbott, (1811) 14 East 157]; neither may a bailiff to distrain for rent, though he may enter through an open window [Crabtree v. Robinson, (1885) 15 QBD 312] or over a wall (Long v. Clarke,
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