Deforcement
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Deforcement is Where aman wrongfully holds lands to which another person is entitled. It therefore includes disseisin, abatement, discontinuance, and intrusion.
Co. Litt. 2776, 3516.
But it is applied especially to cases, not falling under those heads, where the person entitled to the freehold has never had possession; thus, where a lord has a seignory, and lands escheat to him propter defeetum sanguinis, but the seisin is withheld from him, this isa deforcement, and the person who withholds the seisin is called a “deforeeor.”
3 BI. Comm, 172.
In Scotch law
The opposition or resistance made to messengers or other public officers while they are actually engaged in the exercise of their offices.
Ersk. Inst. 4, 4, 32.