•28th September,.1936
T H E PALESTINE
CHAPTER
BURGLARY, HOUSEBREAKING
GAZETTE
1033
XXXIII.
A N D SIMILAR
OFFENCES.
294.
A n y person who breaks any part, whether external or
internal, of a building, or opens by unlocking, pulling, pushing,
lifting, or any other means whatever, any door, window, shutter,
or other thing, intended to close or cover an opening i n a building,
or an opening giving passage from one part of a building to another, is deemed to break the building.
Definitions.
A person is deemed to enter a building as soon as any part of
his body or any part of any instrument used by h i m is w i t h i n the
building.
A person who obtains entrance into a building by means of any
threat or artifice used for that purpose, or by collusion w i t h any
person i n the building, or who enters any chimney or other
aperture of the building permanently left open for any necessary
purpose, but not intended to be ordinarily used as a means of
entrance, is deemed to have broken and entered the building.
295.
A n y person w h o : —
Housebreaking
and burglary.
(a) breaks and enters any building, tent or vessel used as a
human dwelling or any building used as a place of worship
w i t h intent to steal or to commit a felony therein; or
(b)
having entered any building, tent or vessel used as a
human dwelling or any building used as a place of worship
w i t h intent to steal or to commit a felony therein or, having
committed theft or a felony i n any such building, tent or
vessel, breaks out thereof;
is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
Such felony is termed housebreaking.
If the offence is committed i n the night, the felony is termed
burglary and the offender is liable to imprisonment for fourteen
years.
296. A n y person who enters or is i n any building, tent or vessel
used as a human dwelling or any building used as a place of
worship w i t h intent to commit theft or a felony therein, is guilty
of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for five years.
Entering dwelling house with
intent to commit
felony.
I f the offence is committed i n the night, the offender is liable
to imprisonment for seven years.
297.
A n y person w h o : —
( a ) breaks and enters a school house, shop, warehouse, store,
office, counting house, stable, cow house or barn or a building which is adjacent to a dwelling house and occupied w i t h
it but is not part of it, and commits theft or a felony
therein; or
Breaking into
building and
committing
felony.
( b ) having committed theft or a felony i n a school house,
shop, warehouse, store, office, counting house, stable, cow
house or barn or i n any such other building as last
mentioned, breaks out of the b u i l d i n g ;
is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
298.
A n y person who breaks and enters a school house, shop,
warehouse, store, office, counting house, stable, cow house, or
Breaking into
building with
intent to commit
felony.