Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Scots law, the offense of feloniously beating or assaulting a person in his own house or dwelling-place. Also
homesocken .
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- noun Scotland An
assault on a person in his ownhome .
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Examples
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BURGLARY (_burgi latrocinium_; in ancient English law, _hamesucken_ [1]), at common law, the offence of breaking and entering the dwelling-house of another with intent to commit a felony.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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I have evited striking you in your ain house under muckle provocation, because I am ignorant how the laws here may pronounce respecting burglary and hamesucken, and such matters; and, besides, I would not willingly hurt ye, man, e'en on the causeway, that is free to us baith, because I mind your kindness of lang syne, and partly consider ye as a poor deceived creature.
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
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I have evited striking you in your ain house under muckle provocation, because I am ignorant how the laws here may pronounce respecting burglary and hamesucken, and such matters; and, besides, I would not willingly hurt ye, man, e’en on the causeway, that is free to us baith, because I mind your kindness of lang syne, and partly consider ye as a poor deceived creature.
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Two burgesses of Edinburgh were accordingly summoned to take their trial for “felony, hamesucken, and violent invasion of the Queen’s palace.”
Luther and Other Leaders of the Reformation 1823-1886 1883
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