Definition of trespass
- v. i. - To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart;
to go.
- v. i. - To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon
the land of another.
- v. i. - To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by
demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or
patience of another.
- v. i. - To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures
or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of
another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine
law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often
followed by against.
- v. - Any injury or offence done to another.
- v. - Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any
violation of a known rule of duty; sin.
- v. - An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et
armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another.
- v. - An action for injuries accompanied with force.