Deforcement

Deforcement, the holding of lands or tenements to which another person has a right; so that this includes as well an abatement, an intrusion, or a disseisin, as any other species of wrong by which he that has a right to a freehold is kept out of possession. It is such a detainer of the freehold from him having the right of property, but not the possession under that right, as falls within none of the injuries of abatement, intrusion, disseisin, or discontinuance, 3 Steph. Com.