{"id":5400,"date":"2017-08-19T06:55:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T06:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=5400"},"modified":"2017-08-19T06:55:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T06:55:59","slug":"trespass-wrongful-entry-on-anothers-real-property","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=5400","title":{"rendered":"(Vicontiel) Writ of Trespass &#8211; Wrongful Entry on Another&#8217;s Real Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\"><strong><b>\u00a0 \u00a0 At least one of the following two elements are required in order to<\/b><\/strong> <strong><b>prove<\/b><\/strong> <strong><b>(prosecute) a criminal trespass\u201d:<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\"><strong><b>That the land was<\/b><\/strong> <strong><b>posted<\/b><\/strong> <strong><b>(i.e.<\/b><\/strong> <strong><b>with a sign<\/b><\/strong><strong><b>).<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><b>the [alleged trespasser] was <\/b><\/strong><strong><b>asked by an authorized person<\/b><\/strong><b> <\/b><\/span><strong><b><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">to leave.<\/span>[1]<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><b>Definition of <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">TRESPASS<\/span><\/b><\/strong><strong><b>:<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong><i>n. <\/i>(13c.) <strong><b>1. <\/b><\/strong><strong>An unlawful act committed against the person or property of another; especially, <\/strong><strong>wrongful entry on another&#8217;s real property<\/strong><strong>. \u00a0<\/strong><strong><b>2. <\/b><\/strong><strong>At common law, <\/strong><strong>a lawsuit for injuries resulting from an unlawful act of this kind<\/strong><strong>. The lawsuit was instituted by a writ of trespass. \u00a0<\/strong><strong><b>3. <\/b><\/strong><i>Archaic. <\/i><strong>MISDEMEANOR.<\/strong> \u2014 trespass, <i>vb. <\/i>\u2014 trespassory, <i>adj.<\/i><strong>\u201d[2]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><b>Definition of <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">UNLAWFUL ENTRY<\/span>:<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\u201c<\/strong>(17c.) <strong><b>1. <\/b><\/strong><strong>The crime of intentionally entering another&#8217;s real property, by fraud or other illegal means, without the owner&#8217;s consent.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> \u00a0 The following is an excerpt from\u00a0P.H. Winfield&#8217;s<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/A_Textbook_of_the_Law_of_Tort_by_P_H_Win.html?id=kjdRQwAACAAJ\"><i>A Textbook of the Law of Torts<\/i><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><b>\u00a0 \u201c<\/b><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><b>The familiar legend on notice-boards, &#8216;Trespassers will be prosecuted&#8217;, implies that it is a crime, but this may usually be dismissed as &#8216;a wooden lie&#8217;. Yet in time past the idea was correct, for trespass of any sort was punishable by fine &amp; imprisonment as well as redressible by an action for damages, &amp; actually it was not until 1694 that the punitive element disappeared although it had faded into obsolescence long before that date. But nowadays trespass is never criminal except under special statutes which make it punishable&#8230;<\/b><\/strong><\/span><strong><b>\u201d[3]<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><b><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0The following is an excerpt form R.F.V. Heuston&#8217;s<\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/strong><strong><i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/openlibrary.org\/books\/OL22120462M\/Salmond_and_Heuston_on_the_law_of_torts.\">Salmond on the Law of Torts<\/a><\/b><\/i><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>:<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201c<\/b><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><b>The term trespass has been used by lawyers &amp; laymen in three senses of varying degrees of generality. (1) In its widest &amp; original signification it includes any wrongful act <\/b><\/strong><strong><b>\u2014<\/b><\/strong><strong><b> any infringement or transgression of the rule of right. The use is common in the Authorized Version of the Bible, &amp; was presumably familiar when that version was first published. But it never obtained recognition in the technical language of the law, &amp; is now archaic even in popular speech. (2) In a second &amp; narrower signification <\/b><\/strong><strong><b>\u2014<\/b><\/strong><strong><b> its true legal sense <\/b><\/strong><strong><b>\u2014<\/b><\/strong><strong><b> the term means any legal wrong for which the appropriate remedy was a writ of trespass <\/b><\/strong><strong><b>\u2014<\/b><\/strong><b> <\/b><strong><i><b>viz. <\/b><\/i><\/strong><strong><b>The tort of trespass to land (trespass <\/b><\/strong><strong><i><b>quare clausum fregit<\/b><\/i><\/strong><strong><b>).<\/b><\/strong><\/span><strong><b>\u201d[4]<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><b>\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> The following is an excerpt from Rollin M. Perkins &amp; Ronald N. Boyce&#8217;s<\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Criminal_Law.html?id=nHVHAQAAIAAJ\"><strong><i><b>Criminal Law<\/b><\/i><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><b>:<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201c<\/b><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><b>Before the word &#8216;misdemeanor&#8217; became well established the wold writers tended to use the word &#8216;trespass&#8217; to indicate an offense below the grade of felony. &amp; int was used at times by Blackstone for this purpose, as in the phrase &#8216;treason, felony, or trespass&#8217;.<\/b><\/strong><\/span><strong><b>\u201d[5]<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote1\">\n<p class=\"sdfootnote\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: #800080;\"><strong>References:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote2\">\n<p class=\"sdfootnote\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>[1]: Bismarck Tribune, \u201cJudge dismisses trespass cases midway through trial\u201d by CAROLINE GRUESKIN Feb 17, 2017: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/bismarcktribune.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/judge-dismisses-trespass-cases-midway-through-trial\/article_16da2eec-2df7-5249-9610-24082d5e34b2.html\">http:\/\/bismarcktribune.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/judge-dismisses-trespass-cases-midway-through-trial\/article_16da2eec-2df7-5249-9610-24082d5e34b2.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote3\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>[2]: All definitions from:\u00a0<a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/\/?page_id=5154#sdfootnote1anc\" name=\"sdfootnote1sym\">Black\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0<i>Deluxe Tenth Edition\u00a0<\/i>by Henry Campbell Black &amp; Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner<\/a>. ISBN: 978-0-314-62130-6<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">[3]:\u00a0<strong><b>P.H. Winfield&#8217;s<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/A_Textbook_of_the_Law_of_Tort_by_P_H_Win.html?id=kjdRQwAACAAJ\"><strong><i><b>A Textbook of the Law of Torts<\/b><\/i><\/strong><\/a><i> <\/i><strong><b>\u00a7<\/b><\/strong> <strong><b>90,<\/b><\/strong> <strong><b>at 307<\/b><\/strong> <strong><b>(5<\/b><\/strong><strong><sup><b>th<\/b><\/sup><\/strong> <strong><b>ed. 1950)<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">[4]:\u00a0<strong><b>R.F.V. Heuston&#8217;s\u00a0<\/b><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/openlibrary.org\/books\/OL22120462M\/Salmond_and_Heuston_on_the_law_of_torts.\"><strong><i><b>Salmond on the Law of Torts <\/b><\/i><\/strong><\/a><strong><b>4 (17<\/b><\/strong><strong><sup><b>th<\/b><\/sup><\/strong><strong><b> ed. 1982)<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">[5]:\u00a0<strong><b>Rollin M. Perkins &amp; Ronald N. Boyce&#8217;s\u00a0<\/b><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/Criminal_Law.html?id=nHVHAQAAIAAJ\"><strong><i><b>Criminal Law <\/b><\/i><\/strong><\/a><strong><b>405 (3d ed. 1982)<\/b><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 At least one of the following two elements are required in order to prove (prosecute) a criminal trespass\u201d: That the land was posted (i.e. with a sign). the [alleged trespasser] was asked by an authorized person to leave.[1] Definition of TRESPASS: \u201cn. (13c.) 1. 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