Colorado Code § 13-40-101

Forcible entry and detainer defined
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(1) If any person enters upon or into
any lands, tenements, mining claims, or other possessions with force or strong hand or multitude
of people, whether any person is actually upon or in the same at the time of such entry, or if any
person by threats of violence or injury to the party in possession or by such words or actions as
have a natural tendency to excite fear or apprehension of danger gains possession of any lands,
tenements, mining claims, or other possessions and detains and holds the same, such person so
offending is guilty of a forcible entry and detainer within the meaning of this article.
(2) If any person enters peaceably upon any lands, tenements, mining claims, or other
possessions, whether any person is actually in or upon the same at the time of such entry and by
force turns the party in possession out or, by threats or by words or actions which have a natural
tendency to excite fear or apprehension of danger, frightens the party out of possession and
detains and holds the same, such person so offending is guilty of a forcible detainer within the
meaning of this article.
(3) If any person enters upon or into any lands, tenements, mining claims, or other
possessions by force or by threats of violence, or words or actions which have a natural tendency
to excite fear or apprehension of danger, and intimidates the party entitled to possession from
returning upon or possessing the same, such person so offending is guilty of a forcible entry
within the meaning of this article.

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