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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.