deforcementn.
/dɪˈfɔːsmənt/ Law.
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.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > illegal seizure or wrongful occupation > wrongful dispossession
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1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 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.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 172 The fifth and last species of injuries by ouster or privation of the freehold..is that by deforcement.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 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. Scots 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.
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1581 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1597) §117 In all actiones of deforcementes, and breaking of arreistmentes.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 2 Ane deforcement done to the kings officiar.
1708 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) ii. iii. x. 434 The resisting him [the messenger at arms] is a crime in the law of Scotland, called deforcement.
a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) i. 22 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.
1884 N. Brit. Daily Mail 5 Aug. 4/3 Two aged women, tried at Stornoway for deforcement of a sheriff officer.
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