US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

    §  851. Action against certain persons holding over as trespassers.  A
  person in possession of real property as  guardian  or  trustee  for  an
  infant,  or  having  an  estate determinable upon one or more lives, who
  holds over and continues in possession after the  determination  of  his
  trust  or  particular  estate, without the express consent of the person
  then immediately entitled, is a trespasser. An action may be  maintained
  against him or his executor or administrator, by the person so entitled,
  or  his  executor  or  administrator,  to  recover the full value of the
  profits received during the wrongful occupation.