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HAMESECKEN Definition & Legal Meaning

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In Scotch law. The violent entering into a man’s house withoutlicense or against the peace, and the seeking and assaulting him there. Skene de Verb. Sign.; 2 Forb. Inst 130.The crime of housebreaking or burglary. 4 Bl. Comm. 223.

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