Crossword clues for burglary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Burglary \Bur"gla*ry\, n.; pl. Burglaries. [Fr. Burglar; cf.
LL. burglaria.] (Law)
Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the
nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether
the felonious purpose be accomplished or not.
--Wharton.
--Burrill.
Note: By statute law in some of the United States, burglary includes the breaking with felonious intent into a house by day as well as by night, and into other buildings than dwelling houses. Various degrees of the crime are established.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, Anglo-Latin burglaria (see burglar).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The crime of unlawfully break in a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal. 2 (context legal English) Under the common law, breaking and entering of the dwelling of another at night with the intent to commit a felony. 3 (context legal US English) Under the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20Penal%20Code, entering a building or occupied structure with purpose to commit a crime therein, unless the premises are at the time open to the public or the actor is licensed or privileged to enter. Model Penal Code § 221.1.
WordNet
n. entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property
Wikipedia
Burglary (also called breaking and entering and sometimes housebreaking) is an unlawful entry into a building or other location for the purposes of committing an offence. Usually that offence is theft, but most jurisdictions include others within the ambit of burglary. To engage in the act of burglary is to burgle (in British English) or to burglarize (in American English).
"Burglary" is the third episode of the second series of British television sitcom, Bottom. It was first broadcast on 15 October 1992.
Usage examples of "burglary".
If the murderer was a criminal who had broken into the house with the intention of committing a burglary, there could be no connection between the return of Sir Horace Fewbanks from Scotland and his murder.
The burglary had probably been arranged in the belief that the house was empty, Sir Horace having sent the servants away to his country house in Dellmere a week before.
Suppose he went home, and on thinking things over sent the letter to Scotland Yard with the idea that if the police got on to his tracks about the burglary the fact that he had told us about the murder would show he had nothing to do with killing Sir Horace.
Then he had come over to my flat in order to persuade Fred to carry out the burglary, and direct suspicion to Fred for the murder, if the police worried him.
According to his story, he consented to go and see Birchill under threat of exposure, and he consented to become an accomplice in the burglary for the same reason.
And he told you that Birchill, mistrusting his unwilling accomplice, hurried on the date of the burglary so as to give him no such opportunity.
Birchill is suspicious that Hill has played him false, and naturally so, but Hill, instead of letting him think so, and thus preventing the burglary from taking place, does all he can to reassure him, while at the same time begging him to postpone the burglary.
Scotland on the very night the burglary is to be committed is not a trap to catch him, but a coincidence.
Your case is that this man Birchill, while visiting Riversbrook to commit a burglary which he and Hill arranged, encountered Sir Horace Fewbanks and murdered him.
In short, I believe Birchill went up there to commit a burglary and found the murdered body of Sir Horace.
Birchill, while committing the burglary at Riversbrook, was surprised by Sir Horace Fewbanks.
He believed Hill to be a cunning scoundrel who had overreached the police for some purpose of his own by accusing Birchill, and who, to make his story more probable, had even implicated himself in the supposed burglary as a terrorized accomplice.
Birchill to abandon the contemplated burglary, Birchill obstinately decided to carry out the crime, and left the flat with a revolver in his hand, threatening to murder Sir Horace if he found him, because of his harsh treatmentas he termed itof the girl Fanning.
She denied strenuously that Hill tried to dissuade Birchill from carrying out the burglary because Sir Horace Fewbanks had returned unexpectedly from Scotland.
It was Birchill who suggested postponing the burglary until Sir Horace left, but Hill urged that the original plan should be adhered to.