Download or read book A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint) written by William Oldnall Russell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors, Vol. 2 of 3 An actual breaking of the house may be by making a hole in the wall; by forcing open the door; by putting back, picking, or opening the lock with a false key by breaking the window by taking a pane of glass out of the window, either by taking out the nails or other fastenings, or by drawing or bending them back, or by putting back the leaf of a window with an instrument. And even the drawing or lifting up the latch, (h) where the door is not otherwise fastened; the turning the key where the door is locked on the inside. Or the unloosing any other fastening which the owner has provided, will amount to a breaking. (i) Where a pane of glass had been cut for a month, but there was no opening whatever, as every portion of the glass remained exactly in its place, and the prisoner was both seen and heard to put his hand through the glass, this was held a sufficient breaking. (j) The prisoner got into the prosecutor's cellar, by lifting up a heavy grating, and into his house by forcing open a window which opened on hinges, and was fastened by two nails, which acted as wedges, but would open by pushing: upon a case reserved, the judges held the forcing open the Window to be a sufficient breaking. (k) The prisoner entered a house by pushing down the upper sash of a window, which had no fastening, and was kept in its place by the pulley weight only. There was an outer shutter, but it was not put to. A case was reserved upon the question, whether the pushing down the sash was a breaking, and all the judges were unanimous that it was. (i) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.