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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Deforcement \De*force"ment\, n. [OF.] (Law)
        (a) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful
            withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which
            another has a right.
        (b) (Scots Law) Resistance to an officer in the execution
            of law. --Burrill.


            [1913 Webster]

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

  DEFORCEMENT, tort. In its most extensive sense it signifies the holding of 
  any lands or tenements to which another person has a right; Co. Litt. 277; 
  so that this includes, as well, an abatement, an intrusion, a disseisin, or 
  a discontinuance, as any other species of wrong whatsoever, by which the 
  owner of the freehold is kept out of possession. But, as contradistinguished 
  from the former, it is only such a detainer, of the freehold, from him who 
  has the right of property, as falls within none of the injuries above 
  mentioned. 3 Bl. Com. 173; Archb. Civ. Pl. 13; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t. 
  
  

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

  DEFORCEMENT, Scotch law. The opposition given, or resistance made, to 
  messengers or other officers, while they are employed in executing the law. 
       2. This crime is punished by confiscation of movables, the one half to 
  the king, and the other to the creditor at whose suit the diligence is used. 
  Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 4,4,32. 
  
  

















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