Deforce
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Deforce is a verb meaning (law, Scotland) To resist an officer of the law in the execution of his duty.
Meaning
(law, Scotland) To resist an officer of the law in the execution of his duty.
More Meanings
- (law, transitive) To withhold land unlawfully 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.
Word Forms
- deforces
- deforcing
- deforced
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include devest, distrain, deforest, defeasance, dispossess, disseize.
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