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Deforcement

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Deforcement

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Deforce

To keep from the rightful owner to withhold wrongfully the possession of as of lands or a freehold

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Deforciation

Same as Deforcement n

Entry

may therefore be remedied by the mere entry of him who has right. But upon a discontinuance or deforcement, the owner of the estate cannot enter, but is driven to his action; for herein the original entry

Intrusion

is called an intruder. Intrusion was one of the five modes, the others being disseisin, abatement discontinuance and deforcement, which constituted adverse possession, from which time was computed under the old Limitation Acts. The writ of entry

Ouster

of the freehold was effected by various methods: 1, abatement; 2, intrusion; 3, disseisin; 4, discontinuance; and 5, deforcement. Ouster of chattels real consists: 1st, of a motion of possession from estates held by statute, recogni-zance, or

Assise of darrein presentment

the last patron that presented to the church now vacant, of which the plaintiff complains that he is deforced by the defendant, Termes de la Lay. It was, however, abolished, and recourse had to the action of

Consuetudinibus et serviciis

Consuetudinibus et serviciis, a writ of right close, which lay against a tenant who deforced his lord of the rent or service due to him, Reg. Brev. 159; Fitz. N.B. 151; and New

Dower, writ of right of

Dower, writ of right of, the remedy for a widow who had been deforced of part of her dower. Abolished by (English) C.L.P. Act, 1860, s. 26.

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