Back in the year 1604, the English Judge and Jurist, Sir Edward Coke, proudly declared, “An Englishman’s Home is his Castle and His Fortress.” In a famous legal battle known as the “Semayne’s Case” this wise and wordly Judge ruled that there should be stricter laws on when and how a Sheriff could enter another man’s home to issue writs. Declaring also that if thieves or murderers should enter another man’s Bexleyheath home with the intense purpose of robbing or murdering him or his family and the homeowner should kill those intruders protecting his home, that was NOT to be considered a felony and he could not be found guilty of any crime.









