A continuing trespass is described in the source article in two ways. The first is a wrongful act involving a course of action which is a direct invasion of the rights of another, so the wrong is not a single moment but a continuing interference. The second is a trespass in the taking of goods, although without intent to appropriate them, followed by an appropriation. In that second sense the original trespass is deemed to continue to the time of the appropriation, so that the subsequent appropriation is larceny. The doctrine thus lets a later dishonest act be linked back to an earlier taking that was not itself dishonest. The entry restates the lead section and does not go further than it.
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Classification
Doctrine Category Connections
In Area Of Law
Entity-backed identity for the doctrine category value this doctrine already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a doctrine entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Continuing trespass
a wrongful act involving a course of action which is a direct invasion of the rights of anotherView the Source Continuing trespass (Wikipedia)
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