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

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  1. n. A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
  2. n. Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.
  3. (a) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right. (b) (Scots Law) Resistance to an officer in the execution of law. Burrill.
  4. n. A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right. n. Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.