Title 34
Property

Chapter 19
Forcible Entry and Detainer

R.I. Gen. Laws § 34-19-5

§ 34-19-5. Return of verdict.

If, upon a full hearing of the cause, the jury shall find the complaint laid before them supported by the evidence, they shall sign and return to the court their verdict, in form following, to wit:

At a court of inquiry held before one of the justices of the superior court within and for the county of                 at              upon the            day of            in the year           , the jury, upon their oaths, do find that the lands or tenements in         aforesaid, bounded (or, described) as follows (as in the complaint), upon the          day of            in the year            were in the lawful and rightful possession of              and that             did, upon the same day, unlawfully, with force and arms and with a strong hand, enter forcibly into the same, and (or, being lawfully upon the same) did unlawfully, with force and a strong hand, hold and keep out               and that he or she still continues wrongfully to detain the possession from him or her,         : whereupon the jury find, upon their oaths aforesaid, that                  ought to have restitution thereof without delay.

History of Section.
P.L. 1908, ch. 1533, § 4; G.L. 1909, ch. 340, § 5; G.L. 1923, ch. 391, § 5; G.L. 1938, ch. 591, § 5; G.L. 1956, § 34-19-5.