from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
CONTINUING DAMAGES. Those which are continued at different times, or which
endure from one time to another. If a person goes upon successive day's and
tramples the grass of the plaintiff, he commits continuing damages; or if
one commit a trespass to the possession, and it is in fact injurious to him
who has the reversion or remainder, this will be continuing damages. In this
last case the person in possession may have an action of trespass against
the wrong doer to his possession, and the reversioner has an action against
him for an injury to the reversion. 1 Chit. Pr. 266, 268, 385; 4 Burr. 2141,
3 Car. & P. 817.