trespass

IPA: trˈɛspæs

noun

  • (law) An intentional interference with another's property or person.
  • (archaic) sin

verb

  • (intransitive, now rare) To commit an offence; to sin.
  • (transitive, obsolete) To offend against, to wrong (someone).
  • (intransitive) To go too far; to put someone to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude.
  • (law) To enter someone else's property illegally.
  • (obsolete) To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.
  • (transitive) To decree that a person shall be arrested for trespassing if he or she returns to someone else's land.
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Examples of "trespass" in Sentences

  • The catch & release might lessen the actual harm but a trespass is still a trespass.
  • Such failure to leave is normally a third-degree criminal trespass, which is a class B misdemeanor.
  • "The word trespass, my dear sir," replied Jack, "will admit of much argument, and I will divide it into three heads.
  • Of course, an important difference is that to my knowledge the candlelight vigils did not engage in trespass, which the SEIU apparently did.
  • When any trespass is done against us, it is good to remember that the trespasser is a brother, which furnishes us with qualifying consideration.
  • If any of you are more knowledgeable about this corner of trespass tort law than I am (the criminal law of trespass is a separate area), I’d love to hear more on this fromyou.
  • Overall, women claimants experienced mixed results in trespass matters: four won their suits; one (who took on the powerful Carter family) did not; and the results of the remaining two cases are unknown.
  • State Lands Commissioner Peter Goldmark announced Thursday that he won't sign a lease with Taylor Shellfish that was negotiated by past commissioner Doug Sutherland to settle the company's long-term trespass on state tidelands in Totten Inlet.

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