Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

Hamesecken

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In Scotch law

The violent entering into a man's house without license or against the peace, and the seeking and assaulting him there.

Skene de Verb. Sign.; 2 Forb. Inst 139.

The crime of housebreaking or burglary.

4 Bl. Comm. 223.