Usurpation
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The unlawful assumption of the use of property which belongs to another; an interruption or the disturbing a man in his right and possession.
Tomlins.
According to Lord Coke, there are two kinds of usurpation, — first, when a stranger, without right, presents to a church, and his clerk is admitted; and, second, when a subject uses a franchise of the king without lawful authority.
Co. Litt. 277b.
In Governmental Law. The tyrannical assumption of the government by force, contrary to and in violation of the constitution of the country,