DEGRADATION
Categories: Property
Definition (1910 Edition)
thus, where a lord has a selgnory, and lands escheat to him propter defectum sanguinis, but the seisin is withheld from him, this is a deforcement, and the person who withholds the seisin is ‘called a “deforceor.” 3
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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