Encroach
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
To gain unlawfully upon the lands, property, or authority of another': as if one man presseth upon the grounds of another too far, or if a tenant owe two shillings rentservice and the lord exact three. So, too, the Spencers were said to encroach the king's authority.
Blount; Plowd. 94a.
Quite a memorable instance of punishment for encroaching (accroaching) royal power took place in 21 Edw. III.
1 Hale. PI. Or. 80.
Takii by clerks of the courts has been held encroaching; 1 Leon. 5.