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Section 277: Breaking into building and committing felony

277.Breaking into building and committing felony

Any person who—

(a)breaks and enters a schoolhouse, shop, warehouse, store, office or counting house or a building which is adjacent to a dwelling house and occupied with it but is no part of it, or any building used as a place of worship, and commits a felony in it; or

(b)having committed a felony in a schoolhouse, shop, warehouse, store, office or counting house or in any other building mentioned in paragraph (a), breaks out of the building,

commits a felony and is liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term of seven years.

Plain English Summary

You commit a felony if you break into and enter specific buildings like a school, shop, warehouse, office, counting house, or place of worship, and th...

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