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Comment by quietbritishjim

14 hours ago

In the UK, there is no crime "burglary".

"Breaking and entering" it's a criminal offence, and walking through an unlocked front door back door doesn't count. If you are on someone's land but didn't have to break in then that's trespass, which is just a civil offense.

Theft is a crime in any case (indeed even if you're not on their land e.g. snatching a phone off the street).

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9JollyOtter  11 hours ago

> In the UK, there is no crime "burglary".

Yes there is:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/60/section/9

https://www.college.police.uk/guidance/residential-burglary/...

> "Breaking and entering" it's a criminal offence, and walking through an unlocked front door back door doesn't count.

No breaking and entering is known as burglary. Also if you walk through the front door with the intent to commit a crime it is still burglary. The important part is trespassing with the intent to commit a crime.

bryanrasmussen  12 hours ago

OK, I probably should specify closer, but while the other commenter has noted there is "burglary" in the UK, I was using burglary in the vernacular, meaning you entered someone's house without their knowledge and stole some shit. I was perhaps unclear with this and in fact in some places what entering someone's house that is not locked and stealing some shit may be a different crime than when it is locked both variations are still generally described, in common usage, as a burglary and are both illegal according to every legal code of every place I've lived, which I've lived in a lot of Western Civ type places.