trespass quare clausum fregit
- noun
- Archaic
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trespaso quare clausum fregit
- The property owner filed a suit for trespass quare clausum fregit after discovering the fence had been broken.
Examples
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The defendant was found liable for trespass quare clausum fregit when he entered the neighbor’s field without permission.
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Historically, trespass quare clausum fregit allowed landowners to protect their boundaries through legal proceedings.
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The farmer filed a trespass quare clausum fregit suit against the neighbor.
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Did you hear about the trespass quare clausum fregit case in court?
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The defendant was found liable for trespass quare clausum fregit when he entered the neighbor’s field without permission.
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Historically, trespass quare clausum fregit allowed landowners to protect their boundaries through legal proceedings.
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The property owner filed a suit for trespass quare clausum fregit after discovering the fence had been broken.
Synonyms
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The act of entering someone else's land without permission
Surface Forms
Morphology
trespass + quare + clausum + fregit
Most of the phrase is Latin (quare clausum fregit) and not transparent to an average B1 learner; even knowing 'trespass' would not allow the learner to derive the specialized legal meaning from the unfamiliar Latin components. This is an archaic, technical legal formula whose sense ('trespass to land') is language- and register-specific rather than compositionally predictable, so it is opaque to learners.
Etymology
Trespass quare clausum fregit comes from old law and literally described someone who broke a closed fence to enter another person's land. The image of breaking the clausum, the 'closed area', and going in explains why it now means 'a legal action for entering another's land'.