Forcible Detainer
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
The offence of violently keeping possession of lands and tenements, [either after a peaceable or forcible entry,] with menaces, force and arms, and without the authority of law.
4 Bl. Com. 148. 4 Steph. Com. 280.
See For> eible entry, and the authorities ibid. To constitute a forcible detainer, there must be actual force, with strong hand, except where the parties stand in the relation of landlord and tenant.
3 A. K. Marshal Vs (Ky.) R. 1145, [296.]