Definition of House-breaking :

The word in practice is equal to ‘Burglary’. Section 445 of the Indian Penal Code has laid down a definition of the term.

A person is said to commit housebreaking who commits house trespass if he effects his entrance into the house (or any part of it), or if being in the house (or any part of it) for the purpose of committing an offence, or having committed an offence therein he quits the house, such entrance or exit being made by use of force in one of the six ways as described in the Indian Penal Code.