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tepan topehua.

Headword: 
tepan topehua.
Principal English Translation: 

to move into the territory of someone else, crossing borders and ignoring boundary markers (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tepan topeua
Alonso de Molina: 

tepan topeua. (pret. onitepantopeuh.) meterse enterminos de otro, o traspassar lindes, o mojones.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 102r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Land Tenure