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trespass: a standalone construct

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trespass1 CONSTRUCTTrespass (law)BLACKSTONE · 1769

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Law

Unauthorised intrusion on land, person, or goods

In law, trespass is a direct and unauthorised interference with another's person, land, or goods, most familiarly trespass to land, the intentional entry onto property in another's possession without right. The action grew from the medieval writ of trespass vi et armis, the ancestor of much of modern tort law as described in Baker's An introduction to English legal history and Blackstone's Commentaries, and it is actionable without proof of damage because the wrong is the unpermitted crossing of a legal boundary. The referent is a civil (and sometimes criminal) wrong of boundary-crossing, measured by whether an unauthorised intrusion occurred, distinct from the moral or religious meaning of a trespass as a sin.[1][2][3]

Unit
Whether an unauthorised, direct intrusion on person, land, or goods occurred
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Established by proof of a direct, intentional, unauthorised interference, actionable without proof of harm

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References

  1. Blackstone, W. (1979). Commentaries on the laws of England: A facsimile of the first edition of 1765–1769: Vol. 3. Of private wrongs. University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1768) ISBN 9780226055435
  2. Keeton, W. P., Dobbs, D. B., Keeton, R. E., & Owen, D. G. (1984). Prosser and Keeton on the law of torts (5th ed.). West Publishing. ISBN 9780314748805
  3. Baker, J. H. (2002). An introduction to English legal history (4th ed.). Butterworths LexisNexis. ISBN 9780406930538

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