59.12.010 - Forcible entry defined. - Washington Statutes

Forcible entry defined.

Every person is guilty of a forcible entry who either -- (1) By breaking open windows, doors 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 actual possession.

[1891 c 96 § 1; RRS § 810. Prior: 1890 p 73 § 1.]