Definition of trespass

• v. i. - To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.
• v. i. - To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.
• v. i. - 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.
• v. i. - 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.
• v. - Any injury or offence done to another.
• v. - Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.
• v. - An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another.
• v. - An action for injuries accompanied with force.