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DEFORCEMENT
Etymology
Noun
deforcement (countable and uncountable, plural deforcements)
(legal) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
(legal, Scotland) Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.
Source: Wiktionary
De*force"ment, n. Etym: [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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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