Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    He broke the close.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    L. Lat. (He broke the close.) In pleading and practice. Technical words formerly used in cortain actions of trespass, and still retained in the phrase quare clausum fregit, (q. vt)