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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