House-trespass and housebreaking

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..... e trespass, is said to commit lurking house-trespass. (2) A person is said to commit house-breaking who commits house-trespass if he effects his entrance into the house or any part of it in any of the six ways hereinafter described; or if, being in the house or any part of it for the purpose of committing an offence, or having committed an offence therein, he quits the house or any part of it i .....

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..... order to the quitting of the house after a house-trespass; (e) if he effects his entrance or departure by using criminal force or committing an assault, or by threatening any person with assault; (f) if he enters or quits by any passage which he knows to have been fastened against such entrance or departure, and to have been unfastened by himself or by an abettor of the house-trespass. .....

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..... latch by putting a wire through a hole in the door. This is house-breaking. (f) A finds the key of Z s house door, which Z had lost, and commits house-trespass by entering Z s house, having opened the door with that key. This is house-breaking. (g) Z is standing in his doorway. A forces a passage by knocking Z down, and commits house-trespass by entering the house. This is house-breaking. .....

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