deforcement

A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.

Resistance to an officer in the execution of law. It is similar to resisting arrest or obstruction of justice in modern law.

There was something in the air and tone of the young soldier, which seemed to argue that his interference was not likely to be confined to mere expostulation; and which, if it promised finally of a process of battery and deforcement, would certainly commence with the unpleasant circumstances necessary for founding such a complaint.