Usually means: Unlawful withholding of rightful possession.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. deforce: Merriam-Webster
  2. deforce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deforce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deforce: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deforce: Wordnik
  6. deforce: Wiktionary
  7. deforce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. deforce: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Deforce, deforce: Dictionary.com
  10. Deforce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Deforce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. deforce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Deforce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. deforce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. deforce: FreeDictionary.org
  16. deforce: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deforce: Legal dictionary

(Note: See deforcement as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (deforce)

verb:  (law, transitive) To withhold land unlawfully from its true owner or from any other person who has a right to the possession of it, after one has lawfully entered and taken possession of it.
verb:  (law, Scotland) To resist an officer of the law in the execution of his duty.

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