| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.[Websters]
2. Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.[Websters]. | |
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Date "DEFORCEMENT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
| Note: Deforcement \De*force"ment\, noun. [OF.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DEFORCEMENT
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| Noah Webster | [Noun] 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.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Law | 1: DEFORCEMENT, Scotch law. 1. The opposition given, or resistance made, to messengers or other officers, while they are employed in executing the law. 2. This crime is punished by confiscation of movables, the one half to the king, and the other to the creditor at whose suit the diligence is used. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 4,4,32. (references) | 2: DEFORCEMENT, tort. In its most extensive sense it signifies the holding of any lands or tenements to which another person has a right; Co. Litt. 277; so that this includes, as well, an abatement, an intrusion, a disseisin, or a discontinuance, as any other species of wrong whatsoever, by which the owner of the freehold is kept out of possession. But, as contradistinguished from the former, it is only such a detainer, of the freehold, from him who has the right of property, as falls within none of the injuries above mentioned. 3 Bl. Com. 173; Archb. Civ. Pl. 13; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t. (references) | |
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