DCHP-2

break and enter break-and-enter, breaking and entering, B and E, B & E DCHP-2 (October 2016)

• n. — expression, Administration, Law

  to break into and enter a place with intent to commit a criminal offence or to actually commit such an offence; shortening of the legal term for a burglary breaking and entering.

  Type: 5. Frequency — In Canada, the term breaking and entering has replaced burglary in the Criminal Code. Breaking and entering can be prosecuted either as a minor or major crime, depending on the nature of the premises entered, whether a weapon was involved, and what kind of weapon was involved. See also Canadian Encylopedia reference.
  See also COD-2, s.v. "breaking and entering", Gage-3, s.v. "break and enter", Gage-5, s.v. "breaking and entering", which is marked "Law", ITP Nelson, s.v. "breaking and entering", which is marked "Law", and OED-3, s.v. "breaking" (1c), W-3, s.v. "break", AHD-5, s.v. "breaking and entering".

  See also: burglary  B & E  

  • While break and enter is the shortened form of the legal term breaking and entering, it is also commonly abbreviated, most frequently in writing and generally not in speech, to B and E or B & E.

  • 1894  Housebreaking is the offence of breaking and entering any dwelling house by day and committing, or wish intent to commit any indictable offence therein. It includes the breaking and entering and committing any indictable offence in a school-house, shop, warehouse, or counting-house, or any building within the curtelage of a dwelling-house, but not so connected therewith as to form part of it under the provisions of the statue [sic] respecting the said offence. It differs from burglary in this, that burgarly [sic] consists of the same offence being committed by night. 
  • 1915  Peter Dezitter, the man with several aliases, was sentenced to seven years for breaking and entering, seven years for uttering a forged document, and two years for false pretenses, this morning in the district criminal court by Judge Taylor. 
  • 1940  Sharpe appeared before Magistrate Sinclair in Calgary on July 9th, and received sentence of two- and one-half years on thirteen charges of breaking and entering, and theft. 
  • 1952  Wilder has been charged with the theft of a car from the service station on Mount Pleasant Rd. on June 17. [...] Wilder has also been charged with break and enter with intent of Bagnall's Garage, Queen St. W. 
  • 1978  Edmonton's case is no different. In fact, rising incidences of such crimes as break-and-enter and armed robbery have caused city Police Chief Robert Lunney to seek the public's help in apprehending criminals. 
  • 1979  Larry was much more cheerful and chirped in: I did seven months for B and E (breaking and entering). It wasn't the first time I got busted. Next time, though, I go to criminal court. 
  • 1983  "Assuming there wasn't a break-and-enter, if a Globe and Mail reporter can find it, then any other speculator could have found it, the financial institutions or anyone else who may be affected by the tax changes. We have a responsibility to make sure we don't throw things out in the garbage." 
  • 1989  The boy said the four, including Allen, had been drinking vodka and beer and talking about "pulling a B and E, or robbing somebody." 
  • 1998  Breaking and entering with a weapon carries an automatic three years in jail, increased to four years if there's a gun involved. 
  • 2002  "Another difference is SOCO officers collect evidence but cannot provide an opinion on the case," said Senior Const. Marc Lauzon, an officer with the Kapuskasing Detachment. "Ident officers will be the ones to make conclusions from cases. They primarily work in Criminal Identification while SOCO officers are also general enforcement patrol officers. Also, let's say there's a call for a small cottage break and enter at the same time as a multiple fatality, then the SOCO will go to investigate the cottage, so the Ident officers can focus their attention on the fatalities." 
  • 2009  A man convicted of a shotgun slaying during a botched break-and-enter in 1970 is back behind bars, his parole cancelled after he was convicted of a fresh B&E. 
  • 2013  Officers arrested a 30-year-old woman at the corner of Gertrude Street and Lathom Road Tuesday morning for breaking and entering, after the detachment received a phone call from a homeowner. 
  • 2016  A female pedestrian reported a male had punched her in the face and stolen her purse. He was last seen running north on Seventh Street from Rosser Avenue. [...] Police believe the male was involved in the break and enter that occurred at around the same time in the 700 block of Rosser Avenue.