2006 Utah Code - 78-36-2 — "Forcible detainer" defined.

     78-36-2.   "Forcible detainer" defined.
     Every person is guilty of a forcible detainer who either:
     (1) by force, or by menaces and threats of violence, unlawfully holds and keeps the possession of any real property, whether the same was acquired peaceably or otherwise; or,
     (2) in the nighttime, or during the absence of the occupants of any real property, unlawfully enters thereon, and, after demand made for the surrender thereof, refuses for the period of three days to surrender the same to such former occupant. The occupant of real property within the meaning of this subdivision is one who within five days preceding such unlawful entry was in the peaceable and undisturbed possession of such lands.

No Change Since 1953