Accroach
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
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.
In French Law. To delay.
Whishaw.