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STATUTE LAWS RP:LATING TO TRESPASS. 



The legal definition of trespass, accordiug to chapter 179, sec- 

 tions 9 and 10, of the Public Statutes, is : "An unlawful act com- 

 mitted with violence, either actual, or implied by law, to the 

 person, property, or relative rights, of another." 



OF OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY. 



[P. S., Chap. 203.] , 



Sect. .5. Whoever wilfully and maliciously burns or otherwise 

 destroys or injm'es a pile or parcel of wood, boards, timber, or other 

 lumber, or any fence, bars or gate, or a stack of grain, hay, or other 

 vegetable product, or any vegetable product severed from the soil and 

 not stacked, or any standing tree, grain, grass, or other standing product 

 of the soil, or the soil itself, of another, shall be punished by imprison- 

 ment in the state prison not exceeding five years, or by fine not exceed- 

 ing five hundred dollars and imiDrisonment in the jail not exceeding one 

 year. 



Sect. 27. Whoever by a trespass, with intent to steal, takes and 

 carries away anything which is parcel of the realty or annexed thereto, 

 the ijroperty of another and of some value, against his will, shall be 

 guilty of such simple or aggravated larceny as he would be guilty of if 

 such property were personal property. 



Sect. 28. Any person may become an accessory to such larceny 

 before or after the fact, or a receiver of the pi-ojjerty stolen, in like 

 manner as if the property stolen were personal, and shall be p; aished 

 accordingly. 



Sect. 53. Whoever wilfully, mischievously, and without ri<;,ht takes 

 or uses a boat or vehicle, or takes, drives, rides, or uses a ho/se, ass, 

 mule, ox, or any draught animal, the property of another, without the 

 consent of the owner or other person having the legal custody, care, or 

 control of the same, shall be punished by fine not exceeding three 

 hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the house of correction for a term 

 not exceeding six months ; but this section shall not apjjly to a case 

 where the taking of the property of another is with the intent to steal 

 the same, or where it is taken under a claim of right, or with the 

 presumed consent of the owner or other person having the legal control, 

 care, or custody of the same. 



Sect. 83. Whoever wilfully or maliciously destroys, injures, defaces, 

 or mars a dwelling-house or other building, whether upon the inside or 

 outside, shall be punished by imprisonment in the jail not exceeding 

 sixty days, or by fine not exceeding fifty dollars. 



Sect. 86. Whoever wilfully, maliciously, and without right or license, 

 cuts, injures, mars, or otherwise damages or destroys ice upon waters 

 from which ice is or may be taken as an article of merchandise, whereby 

 the taking thereof is hindered or the value thereof diminished for that 

 purpose, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. 



