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Accroach

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

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

4 Bl. Comm. 76.

A knight who forcibly assaulted and 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 accroachment.

1 Hale, P. C. 80.