Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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hamesucken
n. Hist. The crime of housebreaking or burglary accompanied by violence. - Also spelled hamesecken; hamesoken."Burglary, or nocturnal housebreaking, burgi latrocinium, which by our ancient law was called hamesecken, as it is in Scotland to this day, has always been looked upon as a very heinous offence ...." 4 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 223 (1769).