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Definition of Deforcers
1. deforcer [n] - See also: deforcer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deforcers
Literary usage of Deforcers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"... upon that supposition receives the testimonies of those who were employed by
him, though they also should happen to have been beaten by the deforcers *. ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by William Brown, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Robert Belt (1820)
"The deforcers of dower are (by that statute) to be in mercy, or fined at the
pleasure of the king, which, in those days was a very serious thing, ..."
3. The Records of the Proceedings of the Justiciary Court, Edinburgh, 1661-1678 by Edinburgh (Scotland). Justiciary Court, William George Scott-Moncrieff (1905)
"12 Ja. it is statute and ordained that all deforcers of Messengers or Officers
or troublers of them in execution of the office of any ..."
4. Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence as Administered in England and America by Joseph Story, Jairus Ware Perry (1877)
"The deforcers of dower are (by that statute) to be in mercy, or fined at the
pleasure of the king, which, in those days, was a very serious thing, ..."
5. An Abridgement of the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland: From the Reign of by William Alexander (1841)
"... for the effect foresaid, be halden every zeir twise.16* 72. deforcers or
troublers of ... of their causing and command, the deforcers ..."
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