Social: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]
See also
- Land law
References
- ↑ Blackstone, William (1768). Commentaries on the Laws of England. 3. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 172. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2417578W/Commentaries_on_the_laws_of_England?edition=ia%3Acommentariesonla03blac.
- ↑ "Detention of Dower". American Jurisprudence 2d. 25. Eagan, Minnesota: Thomson Reuters. Service No. 13504006. https://store.legal.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/products/am-jur-2d-full-set-13504006.
