In the law of negligence, and with reference to trespasses on realty, invitation is the act of one who solicits or incites others to enter upon, remain in, or make use of, his property or structures thereon, or who so arranges the proiierty or the means of access to it or of transit over it as to Induce the reasonable belief that he expects and intends that others shall come upon it or pass over it. See Sweeney v. old Colony & N. R. Oo.? 10 Allen (Mass.) 373, 87 Am. Dec. 644; wilson v. New York, N. H. & H. R. Co., 18 R. I. 491, 29 Atl. 258; wright ▼. Boston & A. R. Co., 142 Mass. 300, 7 N. E. 866
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
