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Deforciare

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Defortiare, Deforceare. L. Lat. In old English practice. To deforce; to withhold lands or tenements from the right owner. Bract, fol.

238 et seq.

Fleta, lib.

6, c. 11.

Said by Lord Coke to be a word of art which cannot be expressed by any other word.

Co. Litt. 331 b.

Deforciat, Deforceat; he deforces. Quod n deforceat; that he deforces him or her.

Reg. Orig. 110.

Bract, fol.

312 h.

Quam talis ei deforciat; of which such a one deforces him. Id. fol.

328.

Deforciator; a deforceor. Stat. Marlbr.

C.7.