trespass

tres·pass   (trěs'pəs, -pās')    intr.v.   tres·passed, tres·pass·ing, tres·pass·es To commit an offense or a sin; transgress or err. Law To commit an unlawful injury to the person, property, or rights of another, with actual or implied force or violence, especially to enter onto another's land wrongfully. To infringe on the privacy, time, or attention of another: "I must . . . not trespass too far on the patience of a good-natured critic" (Henry Fielding). n.   (trěs'pās', -pəs) Transgression of a moral or social law, code, or duty. Law The act of trespassing. A suit brought for trespassing. An intrusion or infringement on another. See Synonyms at breach. [Middle English trespassen, from Old French trespasser : tres-, over (from Latin trāns-; see trans-) + passer, to pass; see pass.] tres'pass·er n.

Main Entry: tres·pass
Pronunciation: 'tres-p&s, -"pas
Function: noun
Etymology: Anglo-French trespas violation of the law, actionable wrong, from Old French, crossing, passage, from trespasser to go across, from tres across + passer to pass
: wrongful conduct causing harm to another: as a : a willful act or active negligence as distinguished from a mere omission of a duty that causes an injury to or invasion of the person, rights, or esp. property of another; also : the common-law form of action for redress of injuries directly caused by such a wrongful act —compare TRESPASS ON THE CASE in this entry b : TRESPASS QUARE CLAUSUM FREGIT in this entry

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con·tinu·ing trespass
: a trespass that continues until the act (as of depriving another of his or her property without the intent to steal it) or instrumentality (as an object placed wrongfully on another's land) causing it is ended or removed

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criminal trespass
: trespass to property that is forbidden by statute and punishable as a crime as distinguished from trespass that creates a cause of action for damages

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trespass ab initio
: a trespass that arises upon a lawful act which because of subsequent unlawful or wrongful conduct is deemed under a legal fiction to have been trespassory from the beginning

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trespass de bo·nis as·por·ta·tis
/-dE-'bO-nis-"as-por-'tA-tis, -dA-'bO-nEs-"äs-por-'tä-tEs/
Etymology: probably from Medieval Latin (trangressio) de bonis asportatis (trespass) concerning property carried off
: a common-law form of action to recover for trespass involving the carrying off of one's goods by another

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trespass on the case
: a common-law form of action to recover for another's wrongful act that indirectly causes one's injury called also action on the case case

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trespass qua·re clau·sum fre·git
/-'kwer-E-'klo-z&m-'frE-j&t, -'kwä-rA-'klau-sum-'frA-gEt/
Etymology: probably from Medieval Latin (transgressio) quare clausum fregit (trespass) whereby he or she broke into a close (tenement protected by law of trespass)
: a trespass that involves wrongful and tortious entry on another's real property

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trespass to try title
: an action brought as a means of obtaining redress for a trespass to real property and determining the title to the property

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trespass intransitive verb et ar·mis
/-'vI-"et-'är-mis, -'vE-, -"mEs/
Etymology: Latin intransitive verb et armis with force and arms
: a trespass involving intentional infliction of injury on a person