Deforcement

noun

1. In law:
2. The withholding of lands or tenements to which another person has a right. It implies that the latter has not had possession.
3. In Scots law, a resisting of an officer engaged in the execution of the law.
4. A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
5. Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.