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Webster 1913 Edition
Deforcement
De-force′ment
,Noun.
[OF.]
(Law)
(a)
A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
(b)
(Scots Law)
Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.
Burrill.
Webster 1828 Edition
Deforcement
DEFORCEMENT
,Noun.
1.
The holding of lands or tenements to which another person has a right; a general term including abatement, intrusion, disseisin, discontinuance, or any other species of wrong, by which he that hath a right to the freehold is kept out of possession.2.
In Scotland, a resisting of an officer in the execution of law.Definition 2024
deforcement
deforcement
English
Noun
deforcement (countable and uncountable, plural deforcements)
- (law) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
- (law, Scotland) Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.
- 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, 2002, p.397:
- There was something in the air and tone of the young soldier, which seemed to argue that his interference was not likely to be confined to mere expostulation; and which, if it promised finally of a process of battery and deforcement, would certainly commence with the unpleasant circumstances necessary for founding such a complaint.
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- 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, 2002, p.397: