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deforcement Law.|dɪˈfɔəsmənt|
[a. AF. and OF. deforcement (12th c.), f. deforcer; in med.L. (Scotch Stat.) deforciamentum: see prec. and -ment.]
1. ‘The holding of any lands or tenements to which another person has a right’ (Wharton, Law Lex.); the action of forcibly keeping a person out of possession of anything.
1609Skene Reg. Maj. cxxxv. 137 Gif any man complaines..that he is vnjustlie deforced be sic ane man, of sic lands, or sic ane tenement..the maker of the deforcement sall be summoned incontinent. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 172 The fifth and last species of injuries by ouster or privation of the freehold..is that by deforcement. Ibid. 174 Another species of deforcement is, where two persons have the same title to land, and one of them enters and keeps possession against the other.
2. Sc. Law. The forcible preventing of an officer of the law from execution of his office; such obstruction or resistance as is construed to amount to this.
1581Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1597) §117 In all actiones of deforcementes, and breaking of arreistmentes. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 2 Ane deforcement done to the kings officiar. 1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. iii. x. (1743) 434 The resisting him [the messenger at arms] is a crime in the law of Scotland, called deforcement. a1805A. Carlyle Autobiog. 22 note, The thieves were collecting..in order to come to Dumfries on the day of the execution, and make a deforcement as they were conducting Jock to the gallows. 1884N. Brit. Daily Mail 5 Aug. 4/3 Two aged women, tried at Stornoway for deforcement of a sheriff officer. |