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trespass

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1. trespass - Noun

2. trespass - Verb

Meaning

To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.

To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.

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.

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.

Any injury or offence done to another.

Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.

An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another.

An action for injuries accompanied with force.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our Constitution wisely assigns both joint and separate roles to each branch of the government; and a President and a Congress who hold each other in mutual respect will neither permit nor attempt any trespass. John F. Kennedy

It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when it did, it used the Writ of Trespass as the starting point. Edward Jenks

The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others. Dwight D. Eisenhower

While I continue to keep this Oath unviolated, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art, respected by all men, in all times! But should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot! Hippocrates

Literature is no one's private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves. Virginia Woolf

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