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Deforcement. An injury by ouster or privation of the freehold, where the entry of the present tenent or possessor was originally lawful, but his detainer has become unlawful.
DEFORCEMENT, tort. In its most extensive sense it signifies the holding of any lands or tenements to which another person has a right; Co . Litt.
It may be by abatement, intrusion, discontinuance, or deforcement, as well as by disseisin, properly so called. Every dispossession is not a disseisin. A disseisin, properly so called, requires an ouster of the freehold.
 See also: Wrong, Injure, Law, Action, Witness
  
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