Forcible Detainer
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The offense of violently keeping possession of lands and tenements, with menaces, force, and arms, and without the authority of law.
4 BL. Comin. 148; 4 Steph. Comm, 280.
Forcible detainer may ensue upon a peaceable entry, as well as upon a forcible entry; but it is most commonly spoken of in the phrase “forcible entry and detainer.”