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What is "deforcement"

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Deforcement

Deforcement \De*force"ment\, n. [OF.] (Law)

  1. A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.

  2. (Scots Law) Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.
    --Burrill.

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deforcement

n. 1 (context legal English) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right. 2 (context legal Scotland English) resistance to an officer in the execution of law.