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Open

locked up or covered over applied to passageways as an open door window road etc also to inclosed structures or objects as

the shutting of a door any object used to stop open doors from moving

Open or free admission to all hospitable welcome free opportunity

A short crowbar used by burglars in breaking open doors … A short crowbar used by burglars in breaking open doors

door of the house can in no case be broken open; but if the outer door be open the person distraining

a building It is common to have the entrance door open upon the passage of the porte cochegravere Also a porch

Hall, (1880) 14 Ch D 132]. The sheriff cannot break open the outer door of a dwelling-house to seize [Semayne's case,

include all categories of persons and as that would throw open the door to innumerable objections resulting in a protected proceeding

and where he takes refuge in a house, may break open the door, if admittance be refused; and by the Sheriffs

of Writtel, in Essex, where every tenant whose front door opens to Greenbury shall pay a halfpenny yearly to the lord,