trespass (trespas)

[ Jolly Pinder of Wake field (Child's Ballads, V. 205). 2. An aggre ive or active offense against law or morality; the commi ion of any wrongful or improper act; an offense; a sin: as, a tres pa against propriety. You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespa es and sins. Eph. ii. 1. Be plainer with me, let me know my trespa By its own visage. Shak ., W. T., i. 2. 265. North umber land's treason was condoned Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 372. IMG:content-0831.jpg:[graphic] In 1404 as a trespa only. 3. In law, in a general sense, any transgre ion not amounting to felony or misprision of felony. Specifically- (a) An injury to the person, property, or rights of another, with force, either actual or implied: technically called trespa vi et arm is. In this sense it includes wrongs immediately injurious even when the force is only constructive, as in the enticing away of a servant. (b) A wrongful entry upon land of another: specifically called trespa to real property. Setting foot on another's land without right or license is technically considered a forcible trespa . Casting things upon it, suffering one's cattle to go upon it, or otherwise interfering with its po e ion is equally so. Every unwarrantable entry on another's soil the law entitles a trespa by breaking his close. For every man's land is, in the eye of the law, enclosed and set apart from his neighbour's. Black stone , Com., III. xii. pp. trephined, ppr. trephining. [ by surgeons in trephining; a trephine. trepid (trep'id), a. [= Sp. trépido = Pg. It. trepido, L. trepid us, agitated, anxious, tre pere (found only in 3d pers. sing. trepit ), turn, = Gr. τρέπειν, turn (> ult. E. trope, tropic, etc.). The negative intrepid is much more common.] Trembling from fear or terror; quaking: op posed to intrepid. Look at the poor little trepid creature, panting and helple under the great eyes! Thackeray, Virgin i ans, lxx.