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Definition of Trespass on the case
1. Noun. An action brought to recover damages from a person whose actions have resulted indirectly in injury or loss. "A person struck by a log as it was thrown onto a road could maintain trespass against the thrower but one who was hurt by stumbling over it could maintain and action on the case"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trespass On The Case
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Literary usage of Trespass on the case
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, William Draper Lewis (1902)
"And this accounts for the very great variety of writs of trespass on the case to
be met with in the register; whereby the suitor had ready relief, ..."
2. A Treatise on the American Law of Landlord and Tenant: Embracing the by John Neilson Taylor (1873)
"Trespass on the Case. § 769. According to strict common-law principles, the
distinction between case and trespass, formerly adverted to, becomes important ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"In trespass on the case for damages suffered by an abutting owner from the flowing
... trespass on the case by Winston Bell against the Town of Basic City. ..."
4. The Foundations of Legal Liability: A Presentation of the Theory and by Thomas Atkins Street (1906)
"trespass on the case, we should say, is that form of the action on the case ...
The action of trespass on the case is the proper and normal remedy for all ..."
5. Institutes of Common and Statute Law by John Barbee Minor (1878)
"The statute relates only to the action of trespass on the case, allowing it to
be brought wherever trespass will lie. See 3 Rob. Pr. (2d ed.) 436-'7. ..."
6. The Law of Contracts by William Herbert Page (1919)
"Assumpsit ultimately separated from trespass on the case. The next step in the
development of assumpsit was to differentiate it from the other forms of ..."
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