Deforce
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Deforce is a legal term, meaning to unlawfully withhold land from its true owner or from any other person who has a right to the possession of it, after one has lawfully entered and taken possession of it.[1]
Likewise, deforcement is a broad term for the holding of real property to which another person has a right; used especially to denote keeping out of possession one who has never had possession. It is an abatement, an intrusion, a dissension, a discontinuance, or any other kind of wrong by which a person who has a right to the freehold is kept out of possession.[2]
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References
[edit]- ↑ Blackstone, William (1768). Commentaries on the Laws of England. Vol. 3. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 172.
- ↑ "1860". Detention of Dower. American Jurisprudence 2d. Vol. 25. Eagan, Minnesota: Thomson Reuters. Service No. 13504006.
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