Trespass

1.

Any injury, jury or misfeasance to arms " [force actual or peace. 3. An unlawful tion at law for any of et armis, brought for writ de cursu, issued estabhshed form, depending a breach of the King's (v.

Nisi feceris

Contra ciently obtained jurisdiction, cases of direct or the action eldest son or heir; -vdolating the King's unmarried, or heir's wife; levying war adhering to his enemies; counterfeiting his the chancellor, treasurer, or justices while America, levying war against the United their enemies, giving them aid and comin old English law, the killing of a mashusband by his wife, an ecclesiastical person any person by another, who owes him Formerly, the chief treasurer of England, moneys in the Exchequer, the Chancellor under him. He appointed all revenue and leased Crown lands. The office is are now performed by the Lords Comcosts, half of them, and half of the three fourths added. cucking-stool; -^. Common scold. faciunt collegium: three [may] make a Tresayle: a grandfather's grandfather. Treasure-trove. misfeasance, or nonfeasance.

2.

An inperson or property, made " with force and implied in law], a breach of the King's entry on land of another.

4.

The acthese trespasses. This is either, A. vi trespasses 2 and 3, the old action on a by the clerks in Chancery according to in the King's courts on a fiction of peace, or contempt of royal authority pacem), whereby the King's courts anand consequently covering most intentional wrong; or, B. on the case, on writs, to tliority of the Statute of Westminster cases of contract, or indirect or etc. Class A. is usually called Case. Trespass de bonis asportatis, per quod servitium amisit, per quare olausum fregit: see those