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Definition :

Usurpation, a keeping or holding by using that which is another's; an interruption of usucapio, or disturbing a man in his right and possession, etc. It is called instrusion in the civil and canon laws, Sand. Just.

The unlawful seizure and assumption of another's office, position, or authority, Black's Law Diction-ary, 7th Edn.