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Trespasser ah initio

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Trespasser from the beginning. A term applied to a tort-feasor whose acts relate back so as to make a previous act, at the time innocent, unlawful; as, if he enter peaceably, and subsequently commit a breach of the peace, his entry is considered a trespass.

Stim Gloss. See Wright v. Marvin, 59 Vt. 437, 9 Atl. 601.