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Definition of Deforcing
1. deforce [v] - See also: deforce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deforcing
Literary usage of Deforcing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Extracts from the Records of the Royal Burgh of Stirling by Stirling (Stirling, Scotland), Stirling (Scotland), Robert Renwick (1889)
"... in sundry parts of this kingdome by mobbing and deforcing of his Majesties
officers of the customes in the due and lawfull execution of their office, ..."
2. Reports of Cases Before the High Court and Circuit Courts of Justiciary in by Circuit Court of Justiciary, Charles Tennant Couper, Scotland High Court of Justiciary, High Court of Justiciary, Scotland (1887)
"It is a Suspension, pity assault is mentioned ;—it would have been sufficient to
charge the deforcing of the messenger in the execution of his duty, ..."
3. The Records of the Proceedings of the Justiciary Court, Edinburgh, 1661-1678 by Edinburgh (Scotland). Justiciary Court, William George Scott-Moncrieff, John W. Weston (1905)
"... and divers others for deforcing the said Messenger in the execution of a
Caption at the instance of the Bp. of Aberdeen against the said ..."
4. The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany (1816)
"John Scott, and Alexander Scott, were accused of deforcing excise officers while
making a seizure of smuggled whisky on the road between ..."
5. A Digest of the Law of Scotland: With Special Reference to the Office and by Hugh Barclay, Scotland (1855)
"In minor charges, especially of deforcing justice of peace constables, the trial
is generally before the justices on complaint by their fiscal. ..."
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