DEFORCIARE

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DEFORCIARE. To withhold lands or tenements from the right owner. This is a 
  word of art which cannot be supplied by any other word. Co. Litt. 331 b; 3 
  Tho. Co. Litt. 3; Bract. lib. 4, 238; Fleta, lib. c.