Dwelling House

A building inhabited by man; a house usually occupied by the person there residing, and his family; the apartment, building, or cluster of buildings in which a man with his family resides.- 1 Bish. Grim. Law, § 165. The importance of an exact signification for this word is often felt in criminal cases; and yet it is very difficult to frame an exact definition which will apply to all cases. It is said to be quivalent to "mansion house." 3 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 199; 4 Strob. (S. C. 872; 13 Bost. Law Rep. 157; 7 Man. & G. 122. See 14 Mees. & W. 181; 4 C. B. 105; 4 Call (Va.) 109. It must be a permanent structure (1 Hale, P. C. 557; 1 Russ. Crimes [Greaves Ed.] 798), it must be complete (20 Conn. 245), and it must be inhabited at the time (2 Mass. 478; 52 N. C. 167). It is sufficient if a part of the structure only be used for an abode. Russ. & R. 185; 2 Taunt. 339; 1 Moody, G. C. 248; 11 Mete. (Mass.) 295; 9 Tex. 42; 2 Bos. & P. 508; 27 Ala. (N. S.) 31. Rooms in a tenement house are a dwelling. 80 N. Y. 327. A jail has been held a dwelling house. 18 Johns. (N. Y.) 115; 4 Call (Va.) 109. It includes buildings within the curtilage. 16 Mich. 142; 2 N. G. 118.

The house in which a man lives with his family; a residence; the apartment or building, or group of buildings, occupied by a family as a place of residence. In conveyancing. Includes all buildings attached to or connected with the house. 2 Hil. Real Prop. 338, aud note. In the law of burglary. A honse in which the oceupier and bis family usually reside, or, in other words, dwell and lie in. Whart. Crim. Law, 357.

[L. Lat. domus mansionalis.'l In conveyancing, includes all buildings attached to, or connected with the house. 2 Milliard's Real Prop. 338, and note. In the law of burglary. A house in which the occupier and his family usually reside, or, in other words, dwell and lie in. Wharton's Am. Crim. Law, 357. Otherwise called a mansion house. 3 Serg. <t i2. 199. A building or out-house standing near enough to the dwelling house to l^ used with it, as appurtenant to it, or standing in the same yard, whether the yard be enclosed or open, is part of the dwelling house, so that burglary may be committed withm it. 1 Devereux (N. C.) B. 263. 1 Mayward, 242, 102. See 2 JV. Y. Rev. St. [669], 667, §§ 16, 17. See Burglary.