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Burglary vs Forgery - What's the difference?

burglary | forgery |

As nouns the difference between burglary and forgery

is that burglary is the crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal while forgery is the act of forging metal into shape.

burglary

English

Noun

(wikipedia burglary) (burglaries)
  • The crime of unlawfully breaking into a vehicle, house, store, or other enclosure with the intent to steal.
  • (legal) Under the common law, breaking and entering of the dwelling of another at night with the intent to commit a felony.
  • (legal, US) Under the , entering a building or occupied structure with purpose to commit a crime therein, unless the premises are at the time open to the public or the actor is licensed or privileged to enter. Model Penal Code § 221.1.
  • See also

    * breaking and entering * trespass

    forgery

    Noun

    (forgeries)
  • The act of forging metal into shape.
  • :
  • The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery —with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
  • That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
  • (lb) An invention, creation.
  • Synonyms

    * counterfeit * fake

    Derived terms

    * forger