Scots Law) Defn: The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house.
O thievish Night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars Milton.
Defn: The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night.
Why did you not interfere to stop thisfelonious marriage before it took place?
The second and felonious marriage was a notorious fact; but for form's sake it must be proved before the jury.
Not a word is said about thefts, "robberies," and such "felonious trespasses.
Anyone who apprehends and prosecutes a person guilty of burglary or felonious breaking and entering any house in the day time shall be rewarded 40 pounds in addition to being discharged from parish and ward offices.
Because benefit of clergy is not allowed to women convicted of felony by reason whereof many women suffer death for small causes, any woman convicted for the felonious taking of any money, goods or chattels greater than 12d.
The Felonious Treaty; or, an Inquiry into the Reasons which moved his late Majesty king William, of glorious Memory, to enter into a Treaty at two several times with the King of France for the Partition of the Spanish Monarchy.
The Law calls it larceny where there is felonious and fraudulent taking and carrying away the mere personal goods of another, so long as it be neither from his person nor out of his house.
Actually, almost inevitably this person has committed a huge mass of secret crimes, viciousness and betrayals, rarely indictable felonious acts, but crimes none the less, disreputable deeds that must be kept secret.
Should an unlicensed person diagnose, offer to treat or attempt to cure disease or illness, they will have committed a felonious act.
Crime is commonly imaged as feloniousoffense committed against the public law.
The fact that the shooting is felonious does not make it any more likely to kill people.
The suit was by way of appeal; the cause of action, a felonious trespass.
In defending his person in case of a felonious assault, he may lawfully take the life of his assailant.
This is by law pronounced justifiable homicide, and is allowed also in defense of one's property against felonious and violent injury.
St. Petersburg as a receiver of stolen goods, and managed her felonious business with remarkable astuteness.
The police were above the law, and were not held responsible for offences, not even for suchfelonious assaults as those described, which would have entailed upon ordinary citizens a sentence of four or five years' imprisonment.
None of the policemen or the constable had even a scratch to show, although they charged these ten men with felonious assault.
Yet it was undeniable that a felonious entrance had been made, but by whom or for what purpose, still remained uncertain.
And when with a swirl of his spattering sleeve he drove back the gopher in a shower of spray and leaped to the bank, he seemed to have accepted his felonious hiding-place as a mere picnicking bower.
In fact, given a quiet hour or so, he would undertake to make a felonious entry somehow.
These latter were rescued with extreme difficulty by the townspeople themselves from the felonious fury of the democratic operators, who despoiled their city for ever of all the rest of that superb castellated abbey.
Or if he has escaped death in his felonious enterprise he may have met the constable and be awaiting the pleasure of a grand jury of righteous farmers of the old commonwealth of Maine!
Felonious clerks were thenceforward to suffer like secular criminals.
An Act was passed without opposition reasserting the extinction of the Pope's authority, and another taking away the protection of sanctuary from felonious priests.
Sanctuary: feloniousclerks deprived of the right of, 454.
Burglary is a felony at common law; it is described to be when a person, by night, breaketh into the mansion of another, with an intent to commit a felony; whether the felonious intent be executed or not.
The first is defined to be the felonious taking and carrying away the mere personal property or goods of another, above the value of twelve pence.
And if acts of the offender has feloniouscruelty or wounds, occasioning views.
The Act of Union destroyed the trade of these pirates, but their felonious editions of eighteenth-century authors still abound.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania--the clerk vociferates--charges me with felonious assault on H.
Frick, with intent to kill; feloniousassault on John G.
The felonious intent must exist at the time of the breaking and entering.
Larceny is the felonious taking of the property of another, without his consent and against his will, with the intent to convert it to the use of the taker.
At a subsequent day, Congress branded the slave trade as piracy, and thus, by solemn legislative act, adjudged this compromise to be felonious and wicked.
