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Trespass

Ballentine's Law Dictionary · James A. Ballentine · 1916

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

Any unlawful interference or exercise of dominion with respect to personal property, by which the owner is damnified.

30 Am. St. Rep. 485, note.

An unlawful entry upon the land of another.

See 6 Ind. App. 259, 33 N. E. 253.

Any forcible and unlawful interference with one’s person.

See 76 Tex. 210, 7 L. R. A. 618, 13 S. W. 59.

An action to recover for a trespass.

Id.