Forcible Entry
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
An offense against the public peace, or private wrong, committed by violently taking possession of lands and tenements with menaces, force, and arms, against the will of those entitled to the possession, and without the authority oflaw.
4 Bl. Coram. 148; 4 Steph. Comm. 280; Code Ga. 1882, § 4524.
Every person is guilty of forcible entry who either (1) by breaking open doors, windows, or other parts of a house, or by any kind of violence or circumstance of terror, enters upon or into any real property; or (2) who, after entering peaceably upon real property, turns out by force, threats, or menacing conduct the party in possession, Code Civil Proe, Cal. § 1159.