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‖ vi et armis, advb. phr.|viː ɛt ˈɑːmiːs|
[L., lit. ‘with force and arms’.]
Violently, forcibly, by compulsion; spec. in Law, causing direct damage to person or property; also attrib. Cf. force n.1 5 c.
1618W. Fulbecke Parallel of Civil & Common Laws I. 80 a This Writ will not lye, for it is vi et armis. 1703in Eng. Rep. King's Bench (1909) XCII. 137 So a man shall have an action against another for riding over his ground, though it do him no damage; for it is an invasion of his property, and the other has no right to come there. And in these cases the action is brought vi et armis. 1762Smollett Sir L. Greaves I. iv. 101 He compelled, vi & armis, a rich farmer's son to marry the daughter of a cottager. 1819Keats Let. 31 July (1958) II. 134 If I had not put pen to paper since I saw you this would be to me a vi et armis taking up before the Judge. a1846B. R. Haydon Autobiogr. (1927) iii. xvii. 338, I looked astounded, but casting a glance round the table easily saw..I was to be set at that evening vi et armis. 1873C. M. Yonge Pillars of House II. xix. 181 It was current in the nursery that he was a black man who expelled us vi et armis. 1941W. A. Percy Lanterns on Levee xv. 179 The squad kept marching; it marched now like Beatrice Lillie, vi et armis, clear through an unyielding detachment planted in front of it. 1957R. F. V. Heuston Salmond's Law of Torts (ed. 12) i. 5 To walk peacefully across another man's land is a forcible injury and a trespass, no less than to break into his house vi et armis. |