deforcementとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

deforcement (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 deforcements)

1. (law) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
2. (law, Scotland) Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.
   • 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, 2002, p.397:

     There was something in the air and tone of the young soldier, which seemed to argue that his interference was not likely to be confined to mere expostulation; and which, if it promised finally of a process of battery and deforcement, would certainly commence with the unpleasant circumstances necessary for founding such a complaint.