DOOM OF THE ASSESSOR. See AssEsa mENT.
D 00 R. The place of usual entrance into a house, or into a room in the house.
To authorize the breach of an outer door in order to serve process, the process must be of a criminal nature; and even then a demand of admittance must first have been refused; 5 Co. 94 ; State v. Smith, 1 N. H. 346; Bell v. Clapp, 10 Johns. (N. Y.) 263, 6 Am. Dec. 339; Kelsy v. Wright, 1 Root (Conn.) 83; State v. Shaw, 1 Root (Conn.) 134 ; Banks v. Farwell, 21 Pick. (Mass.) 156 ; Corn. v. Reynolds, 120 Mass. 190, 21 Am. Rep. 510 ; Cahill v. People, 106 Ill. 621;' Hawkins v. Corn., 14 B. Monr. (Ky.) 395, 61 Am. Dec. 147. The outer door may also be broken open for the purpose of executing a writ of habere facias; 5 Co. 93 ; Bac. Abr. Sheriff (N 3).
An outer door cannot,, in general, be broken for the purpose of serving civil pro cess; Oystead v. Shed, 13 Mass. 520, 7 Am.
Dec. 172; Snydacker v. Brosse, 51 Ill. 357, 99 Am. Dec. 551; Hooker v. Smith, 19 Vt. 151, 47 Am. Dec. 679 ; 1 M. & W: 336; Curtis v. Hubbard, 4 Hill (N. Y.) 437, 40 Am. Dec. 292; but after the defendant has been ar rested, and he takes refuge in his own house, the officer may justify 'breaking an outer door to take him; Post. 320; 1 Rolle 138 ; Cro. Jac. 555; Allen v. Martin, 10 Wend.
(N. Y.) 300, 25 Am. Dec. 564. When once an officer is in the house, he may break open an inner door to make an arrest; Fitch v. Loveland, Kirb. (Conn.) 386; Hubbard v. Mace, 17 Johns. (N. Y.) 127 ; 13 M. & W. 52; Prettyman v. Dean, 2 Harr. (Del.) 494. See 1 Toullier, n. 214, p. 88; L. R. 2 Q. B. 593; or break the outer to get out ; 7 A. & E. 826.