deforcement

[Low Lat. def or cia mentum.] Law : 1. The withholding the po e ion of an estate from its rightful owner; the holding of lands or tenements to which another person has a right. "Deforcement may be grounded on the disability of the party deforced." - Black stone : Comment., bk. iii., ch. vii. 2. Scots Law : The resisting or using violence to an officer of the law in the execution of his duty. *dě-förçe-õr, *dē-förs'-õr, s. [Eng. deforc (e); Law : A deforciant. -er.] *dě-förç-1-ant, s. [O. Fr. déforciant , pr. par. of déforcier .] Law : 1. One who keeps the rightful owner out of po e ion of an estate. "In levying a fine of lands, the person against whom the fictitious action is brought upon a supposed breach of covenant is called the deforciant . And, lastly, by way of analogy, keeping a man by any means out of a freehold office is construed to be a deforcement: though, being an incorporeal hereditament, the deforciant has no corporeal po e ion."- Black stone : Commentaries, bk. iii., ch. x. 2. One against whom a fictitious action is brought in fine and recovery. It was abolished by Stat. 3 & 4 William IV., c. lxxiv.