Definition of Trespass viet armis

1. Noun. Trespass with force and arms resulting in injury to another's person or property.

Generic synonyms: Trespass

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trespass Viet Armis

treponematosis
treponeme
treponemes
trepopnœa
treppe
treprostinil
tres
tres-tyne
tres-tynes
tresayle
tresis
tress
tressed
tressel
tressels
tresses
tressful
tressier
tressiest

Literary usage of Trespass viet armis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown: Or, A System of the Principal Matters by William Hawkins, John Curwood (1824)
"A court which is not of record cannot even hold plea of a common trespass viet armis. 4. s. 14 The word " trespass," is of a very general extent, ..."

2. Institutes of Common and Statute Law by John Barbee Minor (1878)
"F., pq" 8f. Form of Memorandum for Action of Trespass vi et armis. "CC v. DD, action of trespass viet armis, damages $6500. To February rules. ..."

3. Abridgment of the Law of Nisi Prius by William Selwyn (1812)
"... that, in strictness of law, trespass viet armis would lie against D. the immediate actor; for inevitable necessity only would excuse a trespass, ..."

4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"Damages for loss of crop may be recovered in an action of trespass Viet armis for removing a fence. Hardin r. Kennedy, 8 McCord. L. 277. ..."

5. New Cases: Selected Chiefly from Decisions of the Courts of the State of New by Austin Abbott, James MacGregor Smith (1892)
"has ever been regarded as trespass, viet armis, a fiction that has caused much difference of opinion among law writers as to whether the injury which is ..."

6. Queen's Bench Reports by John Leycester Adolphus, Thomas Flower Ellis, Great Britain Court of Queen's Bench (1848)
"In Aston's Entries, 508, is a declaration in trespass, viet armis, for fishing in a several fishery, where it is clear that the soil was not the plaintiff's ..."

7. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, William Draper Lewis (1902)
"... ( 14) is nevertheless a transgression for which an action of trespass viet armis(\$) will lie; wherein the plaintiff shall not recover the thing itself, ..."

8. Reports of Cases Determined in the Several Courts of Westminster-hall, from by William Blackstone, Charles Heneage Elsley, James Clitherow (1828)
"... trespass viet armis, inasmuch, as not being supposing that the bailiffs of the court do a court of record, it cannot impose a fine; favour the demandant ..."

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