Vi et armis
In common law, trespass vi et armis (Latin for "by force and arms") was a tort in which the plaintiff would allege in a pleading that an act was "immediately injurious to another's property, and therefore necessarily accompanied by some degree of force; and by special action on the case, where the act is in itself indifferent and the injury only consequential, and therefore arising without any breach of the peace." Thus it was "immaterial whether the injury was committed willfully or not". In Taylor v.