Editing Defence of property (section)

==Reform==

The defence of "private defence" or "protective force," when unlawful force is used or threatened against a person who may use proportionate force to defend persons or property, is distinguished from the line of authority concerned with a similar defence against trespassers. In the Law Commission's Report No. 218 ''Offences Against the Person and General Principles'' (1993)<ref><!-- {{cite BAILII}} only works for case reports --> ''Legislating the Criminal Code: Offences against the Person and General Principles (Report)'' [http://www.bailii.org/ew/other/EWLC/1993/218.html &#91;1993&#93; EWLC 218] (1 January 1993)</ref> at pp.&nbsp;106–110) these defences are set out (so far as they relate to defence of property) as follows:
:27(i) The use of force by a person for any of the following purposes, if only such as is reasonable in the circumstances as he believes them to be, does not constitute an offence:
::(c) to protect his property... from trespass;
::(d) to protect property belonging to another from . . . damage caused by a criminal act or (with the authority of the other) from trespass...
:29(i) For the purposes of s 27...
::(a) a person uses force in relation to... property not only where he applies force to, but also where he causes an impact on,... that property;"