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Accroach

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

To encroach; to exercise power without due authority. To attempt toexercise royal power.

4 Bl. Comm, 76.

A knight who forcibly assaulted nnd detained one of the king’s subjects till he paid him a sum of money was held to have committed treason, on the ground of aceroachment.

1 Hale, P. C. 80.