DEFORCE
In English law. To withhold wrongfully; to withhold the possession of lands from one who is lawfully entitled to them. 3 Bl. Comm. 172; Phelps v. Baldwin, 17 Conn. 212.In Scotch law.
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In English law. To withhold wrongfully; to withhold the possession of lands from one who is lawfully entitled to them. 3 Bl. Comm. 172; Phelps v. Baldwin, 17 Conn. 212.In Scotch law.
Deforcement Is where a man wrongfully holds lands to whichanother person is entitled. It therefore includes disseisin, abatement, discontinuance,and intrusion. Co. Litt. 2776, 3316; Foxworth v. White, 5 Strob. (S. C.) 115;
One who wrongfully keeps the owner of lands and tenements out of the possession of them. 2 Bl. Comm. 350.
L. Lat. To withhold lands or tenements from the rightful owner. This is a word of art which cannot be supplied by any other word. Co. Litt. 3316.
L. Lat. In old English law. A distress, distraint, or seizure of goods for satisfaction of a lawful debt. Cowell.
The punishment of being buried alive.
To practice fraud; to cheat or trick; to deprive a person of property orany interest, estate, or right by fraud, deceit, or artifice. People v. Wiman, 148 N. Y. 29,42 N. E.
In Spanish law. The crime committed by a person who fraudulently avoids the payment of some public tax.
Privation by fraud.
Deceased; a deceased person. A common term in Scotch law.
Lat. Dead. “Defunctus sine prole,” dead without (leaving) issue.
L. Fr. To waste.
A deprivation of dignity ; dismission from office. An ecclesiasticalcensure, whereby a clergyman is divested of his holy orders. There are two sorts by thecanon law,
A term for waste in the French law.
Reviling; holding one up to public obloquy; lowering a person in the estimation of the public.
In the law of descent and family relations. A step or grade, i. e., thedistance, or number of removes, which separates two persons who are related byconsanguinity. Thus we speak of cousins
L. Fr. Out of; without; beyond ; foreign to; unconnected with. Dehors the record; foreign to the record. 3 Bl. Comm. 387.
Lat. By the grace of God. A phrase used in the formal title of a king orqueen, importing a claim of sovereignty by the favor or commission of God. In ancienttimes it
In Spanish law. Surrender; release; abandonment; e. g., the act of an Insolvent in surrendering his property for the benefit of his creditors, of an heir in renouncing the succession, the abandonment
A taking of a solemn oath