deforciantn.
/dɪˈfɔːsɪənt/ Law.
A person who deforces another or keeps him wrongfully out of possession of an estate.
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1292 Britton iii. xv. §3 Si le deforceaunt ne puse averrer la soute [unless the deforciant can aver payment].]
1585 in H. Hall Society in Elizabethan Age (1886) 239 Edward Essex levyed a fyne of the premyses to Hughe Stukeley deforciant.
1613 H. Finch Law (1636) 279 A fine is the acknowledging of an hereditament..to be his right that doth complaine. He that complaineth is called plaintife, and the other deforceant.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 350 An acknowlegement from the deforciants (or those who keep the other out of possession).
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 174 In levying a fine of lands, the person, against whom the fictitious action is brought upon a supposed breach of covenant, is called the deforciant.
1885 L. O. Pike Yearbks. 13 & 14 Edward III Introd. 60 Actions..in which the deforciant could not know the nature of the claim per verba brevis.
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