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to trespasses
verb
To commit an offence; to sin.
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Self-defence is also a valid defence to trespasses against the person, assuming that it constituted the use of "reasonable force which they honestly and reasonably believe is necessary to protect themselves or someone else, or property".
There are many defences to trespasses against the person; the stranger are the right of parents to commit assault and battery against their children for "chastisement" under the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, and the right of the captain of a ship to discipline his crew, as in Hook v Cunard Steamship Co Ltd.
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I don't want to trespass.
On Tuesday, the student pleaded guilty to trespassing.
He did not want to trespass on her secrets.
Ms. Mapp said she never intended to trespass.
He was put on probation after pleading not guilty to trespassing.
"To see most of these houses without an invitation, you would have to trespass," she said.
The thicket's resistance to trespass, while everywhere formidable, stiffened considerably as it evolved upward.
Some tribes objected to trespass so strongly that they attacked the travelers.
American businesses are typically reluctant to trespass into someone else's sector.
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