Legal definitions
Thank you, Counsellor Sparteye, for this discussion, particularly for mentioning the fact that burglary, in its strict definition, is committed only at night; during the day, it's b&e. Mystery/crime writers have often pointed this out. Dr. Watson, in chronicling his and Holmes' exploits wrote in The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton something to the effect that they forced the door to Milverton's house (it being then late at night), stepped through and thereby become felons in the eyes of the law. Actually, as Holmes mentioned earlier in the story, they were already committing a criminal act by being on the public streets at night in possession of burglars' tools.