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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Hamesuk(k)in, n. Also: hame-, haymesokyn; hamesukkyn, -ing, -suckin(e, -en; hamsukkin, -suckin, -su(c)ken; haym(e)sukin, haimsuken, -suckin; hem(m)sucken; (homesukine). [ME. hom-, hamsok(e)ne, OE. hám-sócn, ON. heim-sókn.] The crime of assaulting a person in his own house or dwelling-place. Freq. in various legal tags, as be way of hamesukkin, etc.The circumstances in which an assault can, or cannot, be classed as hamesucken are fully stated in Bell's Dictionary of the Law of Scotland s.v.(a) a 1300 Acts I. 59/1.
Quod nullus exaudiatur de roboria neque de hamesokyn [transl. haymesokyn] … nisi racionabilem faciat sectam Ib.
De certo et proprio domicilio de hamesokyn(b) 1493 Crim. Trials I. 15.
[The felony and] hamesukkin [done to Robert Sleich, his wife and children] 1504 Justiciary Rec. (Reg. H.) I. 279.
Pro arte & parte precogitat. felonie & le hamesukin 1547 Reg. Privy C. I. 59.
Personis that sal happin to committ slauchter … upoun forthocht fellouny and be way of hamesukkyn 1562 Peebles B. Rec. 281.
Apone set purpose, hamesukking and foirthochtfellony 1576 Digest Justiciary Proc. I. 35.
Bodin in feir of weir … [thay] come be way of hame sukin to the landis Nethertoun of Hisilheid and serchit & socht him 1597 Misc. Spald. C. II. 136.
Committing thairby manifest oppressioune and hame suckin 1661 Justiciary Ct. Rec. I. 6.
George Clepon [etc.] … found guilty of hame-sucken 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. i. xi. § 14.
The injury is hightned by polluting the husbands own house, and becomes a kind of adulterous hamsucken(c) 1669 Misc. Abbotsf. C. 91.
Mungo Murray … indyted for the cryme of hemsucken Ib.
When the samen [invading] is committed … within persones ther own hous, be way of hemsucken 1685 Bk. Old Edinb. C. XI. 47.
Tuo vaging persones who have been committing robry and hemmsucken(d) 1638 Orkney Bishop Ct. 102 b.
The said William … cam to the said persewaris hous be way of homesukine, the said persewar being lying in his bed

b. ellipt. The right of trying cases of hamesucken. 1476 Reg. Episc. Glasg. 431.
Cum … infangtheif, outfangtheif, hamesukkin, et precogitata felonia