House-breaking and lurking house-trespass defined by methods of unlawful entry and concealment affecting occupier exclusion rights. House-trespass becomes lurking house-trespass when the intruder conceals the act from a person entitled to exclude them. House-breaking is house-trespass effected by specific means: creating or using passages made by the offender or abettor, entering through passages not intended for entrance or by scaling, opening passages not intended by the occupier to be opened, opening locks, using criminal force or threats, or unfastening passages previously fastened. Immediate out-houses communicating internally are part of the house.
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House-breaking and lurking house-trespass defined by methods of unlawful entry and concealment affecting occupier exclusion rights.
House-trespass becomes lurking house-trespass when the intruder conceals the act from a person entitled to exclude them. House-breaking is house-trespass effected by specific means: creating or using passages made by the offender or abettor, entering through passages not intended for entrance or by scaling, opening passages not intended by the occupier to be opened, opening locks, using criminal force or threats, or unfastening passages previously fastened. Immediate out-houses communicating internally are part of the house.
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