• (n.) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right. • (n.) Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.
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in English property law, wrongful taking and possession of land belonging to another. Deforcement had its primary legal significance in feudal ...
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De·force'ment noun [ Old French ]
(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.
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In its most extensive sense it signifies the holding of any lands or tenements to which another person has a right so that this also includes an abatement, an intrusion, a disseisin, a discontinuance, or any other species of wrong whatsoever by which the owner of the freehold is kept out of possession. But, as contradistinguished from the former, i...
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In law, deforcement is the holding of lands or tenements to which another person has a right; a general term including any species of wrong by which he who has a right to the freehold is kept out of possession. In Scots law, it is the resisting of an officer in the execution of law.
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