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.