Crossword-Solution: HAMESUCKEN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hamesucken | n. | The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house. |
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| FELONIOUS seeking of a person in his dwelling-house (Scots law) | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with HAMESUCKEN (5)
Pest, ye ken him, Daddie Fairford? Old Pest was for making it out HAMESUCKEN, for he said the court might be said--said--ugh!--to be my dwelling-place.
Dined at home with Anne as usual, and despatched half-a-dozen Selkirk processes; among others one which savours of Hamesucken.[482] I think to-day I have finished a quarter of vol.
Vaccinating a Conscientious Objector, without consent, yet without violence,--what would the law say to _that_?' 'We might make it _hamesucken under trust_ in Scotland,' said Logan, 'if it was done on the premises of the young lady's domicile.' 'We have not that elegant phrase in England,' said Merton.
BURGLARY (_burgi latrocinium_; in ancient English law, _hamesucken_[1]), at common law, the offence of breaking and entering the dwelling-house of another with intent to commit a felony.
Two of their number, who had been more violent than the rest, had indictments served upon them for "forethought felony, hamesucken, and invasion of the Palace." Knox and his friends determined to save these two men from punishment, at whatever risk.