40.230 - Forcible entry defined.
40.230 Forcible entry defined. Every person is guilty of a forcible entry who either:
1. By breaking open doors, windows or other parts of a house, or by fraud, intimidation or stealth, or by any kind of violence or circumstance of terror, enters upon or into any real property; or
2. Who, after entering peaceably upon real property, turns out by force, threats or menacing conduct, the party in natural possession.
[1911 CPA § 644; RL § 5586; NCL § 9133]