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PDFRCW 59.12.010

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 s 1; RRS s 810. Prior: 1890 p 73 s 1.]