A trespasser who enters another's land may cause the landowner no financial loss. |
When the driver saw a man in white on the rail, he braked and the train stopped 30 metres short of the trespasser. |
This is the same principle as allows a licensee who is in de facto possession to evict a trespasser. |
As noted above, at common law the trespasser received the least protection of any entrant on the occupier's premises. |
The fact that the claimant was a trespasser is, from the defendant's point of view, purely fortuitous. |
Thus when she re-enters the store she is entering a part of a building as a trespasser intending to steal. |