Forcible Entry
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
An entry with strong hand, or with multitude of people, as distinguished from a peaceable entry.
Stat. 5 Ric. II. c. 8. 2 N. Y. Rev. St. [507,] 418, § 1.
A violent actual entry into a house or land
Termes de la ley.
Cowell.
An offence against the public peace
committed by violently taking possession of lands and tenements with menaces, force and arms, and without the authority of law.
4 Bl. Com. 148. 4 Steph. Com. 280. 2 Chitt. Gen. Pr. 231, 233, et seq. Lewis' U. S. Crim. Law, 274, et seq.
U. S. Digest and Supplement, Forcible Entry and Detainer.