(law) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right. / (law, Scotland) Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.

plural of deforcement

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deforce

present participle of deforce

simple past tense and past participle of deforce

(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.

(obsolete) A deforciant.

plural of deforcer