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Definition of Deforces
1. deforce [v] - See also: deforce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deforces
Literary usage of Deforces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: Containing Full Definitions of the by Alexander Mansfield Burrill (1850)
"One who deforces another, or keeps him out of his freehold. ... that he deforces
him or her. Reg. ... of which such a one deforces him. Id. fol. 328. ..."
2. A treatise on the law of actions relating to real property by Henry Roscoe (1825)
"... and dies and leaves issue two daughters, and the tenant for life dies and one
daughter enters upon the whole land and deforces her sister, the latter is ..."
3. A History of English Law by William Searle Holdsworth, John Burke (1903)
"... which he claims to hold of you by the free service of one penny yearly in lieu
of all services, of which Richard Allan deforces him. ..."
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