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
- Have you actually played the trespasser
- The trespasser appears to be Santa Claus.
- In most instances the tenant can trespass.
- Trespasser features a robust physics system.
- Criminal damage and trespass on the railways.
- Instead, the ferryman was liable for trespass.
- The thief trespassed the house of the President.
- The police caught the man who trespassed the property.
- A trespasser opening the door completely would then be shot.
- Money was the biggest hurdle in the development of Trespasser.
- 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.