Usurpation
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
The wrongful using of the privilege or right of another. Usurpation of advowson. An injury ■which consists in the absolute ouster or dispossession of the patron from the right of presentation to a benefice; and which happens when a stranger who has no right presents a clerk, and the latter is thereupon admitted and instituted. ITsurpation of franchise, or of Bce. The unjustly intruding upon or exercising any office, franchise, or liberty belonging to another.