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N the two preceding chapters we have conidered uch injuries to real property, as conited in an outer, or amotion of the poeion. Thoe which remain to be dicued are uch as may be offered to a man’s real property without any amotion from it.

econd pecies therefore of real injuries, or wrongs that affect a man’s lands, tenements, or hereditaments, is by trepas. Trepas, in it’s larget and mot extenive ene, ignifies any trangreion or offence againt the law of nature, of ociety, or of the country in which we live; whether it relates to a man’s peron, or his property. Therefore beating another is a trepas; for which (as we have formerly een) an action of trepas vi et armis in aault and battery will lie: taking or detaining a man’s goods are repectively trepaes; for which an action of trepas vi et armis, or on the cae in trover and converion, is given by the law: o alo non-performance of promies or undertakings is a trepas, upon which an action of trepas on the cae in aumpit is grounded: and, in general, any misfeaance, or act of one man whereby another is injuriouly treated or damnified, is a trangreion, or trepas in it’s larget ene; for which we have already een that whenever the act itelf is directly and diately