: DEF 
Jeafe lands to anather for a term of years, or for the life a 
third perfon, and the term expires by furrender, «flux 
time, or death loa - cefluy que vie ; and the leffee, or ay 
_ ftranger, who w the expiration of o term, in poffe 
fion, holds ats aa refufes to deliver the poffeffion to 
him i or reverfion, this is likewrfe 
deforcement, (Finch. L. 263. F’. 201 7.) 
ealaeeats Bite he md ches tp the — ofa a condition 
in law; asi es lands to a man by deed, to the 
intent that ae ates ee and he will aot when fiers 
required, but continues to hold the lands; this is fuch a 
fraud on the man’s ee ae the law ye not pre a to 
iveft the woman’s right of po ai then ugh, his 
s diveft ne actual call ie and aer 
mes a ees (F.N. B. 20: Deforcements 
aia be is Shatty on the difability of the party een. 
if a ant es an alienation bs = lands, and t 
lines ee ad s poffeffion ; as the alienation 
this poffelfion as again aie infant (or, in cafe 
of i deceale, as againft his heir) is, after avoidance, 
CT Ae therefore, a deforcement. (Finch. L. 264. 
+) ie fame happens, when one of non-fane 
memory ie his lands or tenements, and the alienee 
enters and holds poffcffion, this may alfo be a deforcement, 
(Finch. L. 264. F.N. B. 202.) Another f{pecies of de- 
forcement - oad two sal have the fame title to land, 
and one em enters eeps poffeffion ar the 
other ; as. “where the a ieee dies poffeffed of an eftate in 
fee-fimple, which. defcends to two fifters as eae and 
one of them enters before the other, and will not fuffer her 
filter to enter and enjoy her moiety ; this is alfo a deforce- 
ment. inch. L. 293, 294. F. N. B. 197. eforce- 
ment may be alfo grounded on the non-performance of 
a covenant-real; as if a man feifed of lands, covenants to 
convey them to another, and negleéts or refufes fo to do, 
but continues poffcffion againft him ; this poffeffion, being 
eae is a deforcement (I. N. B. 146.); whence, in 
levying a fine of lands, the perfon, againit whom the fidti- 
tious ce is brought upon a fuppofed breach of covenant, 
is called the deforciant. And, laflly, by way of analogy, keep- 
ing a man by pak aan out of a freehold office is conftrued 
to bea deforce ough, being an incorporeal her dita- 
meit, the tas no corporeal po offeflion. Sothat what- 
ever injurious withholding the poffeffion of a freehold is 
not inclujed under fide ea ia a = or pm 
finuaice, is comprifed under deforcement. ackft. 
vol, iit. 
p. 174. 
ree ENT, in the law of Scotland, is ufed for the 
ent 
cer he fupreme courts of juftice, as 
heralds, purfaivans, he, es macers; or of inferior 
courts, as 
The panilhnient of this crime i8 confifcation of moveables, 
as fine, imprifon- 
ni re) 
oO » and other Se eee 
crime; befides, the party aggrieve ae hav 
damages, to be highly taxed out of the firft ae readielt of 
the offender’s efcheat, or other eftate. See pane Cris 
minal aw 
Defi ing of officers of the eufonchoule, is provided 
ren the fame ftatutes as in England. 
ORCER, or DerorcianT, one that cafts out an- 
other from his lands, or tenements, by mere farce. See 
DEFORCEMENT. 
DEF 
DEFORMITY is papa seni) aly aa - a and 
denotes the want of that uniformity, fymmetry, and variety 
neceflary to conftitute ae. pe re Dr r. Elutche- 
fon defines it by the seg of beauty, or a deficiency in 
the beauty expected in any fpecics. oy and beauty 
may be confidered ounce as natural 
original arbitrary flru@ur 
minds, by which ae obj¢&s, when cbfered, are rendered 
the occalions of certain ae and affcGio 
That rae obj. As give no p! ‘eafure to our feat i 1s ob- 
be any are ee | void of beauty ; 
ae author, there o form which 
apr carls of itfelf, ae we aaa 
and compare it with nothing better 
objedts are naturally difpleafing, and diftafteful to our exe 
ternal fenfes, as well as others pleafing and agreeable; as 
{mells, palkes, and feparate founds: but with regard 
to our fenfe of beauty, no compofition of obje&ts whic 
give not ara fimple ideas, feems pofitively unpleafant,. 
. Sau felf, had we never obferved any thing better 
o in 
Had there been a {pecies af ie form which we now de-| 
nominate ugly, or deformed, and had we never feen or ex- 
pected greater beauty, w ye ld have received no difguft 
from it ; ee hh plafure would not have becn fo great 
in this form t we now admire. Our fenfe of? 
beauty feems saad i. give us pofitive pleafure; but not 
pofitive pain or difguft, any farther than what arifes from’ 
par eeredal 
are, indeed, many faces which, at firft view, are 
apt ae diflike. But this 
politive ee but either from 
a this is not 
ing in countenances, air 
form poftiey difgufting, say a 
equa fi 
occafioned by any fo 
that if, upon long a ndin 
{weetnefs of temper, carany, oe cheer alec, ees she 
orm aaa it fhall give us no difguft. There 
me objects, ses are only the effect 
» or compaffion towards others, when 
either reafon, or fome foolith aifociation of ide eas, makes 
forns itfelf. Fo nd eee moft of thofe objects, which 
excite horror at firf, when ey eee or o has removed 
the , may becom e the occafio 
Pp 
The cafual couneen of ee ee us “difgut, where 
there is nothing difagreeable in the. form: itfelf. And‘ 
this, in effet, is the caufe of moft of our fantaftic averfions 
reafoning is apphed to our perception of moral beauty and: 
eformity. Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of- 
ae uty and Virtue, paffim. 
But it is more juit to diftinguifh between the fentiments 
of delight or difguit, excited in us by. beautiful of deformed’ 
objects, which are effe&s of fome caufes, and the natural 
and real qualities of the perceived objects by which they are 
produce ere are objects, fays an excellent writer, 
which have a natural aptitude to pleafe or offend, or between 
ary co 
gruity or incongruity ; and thou e attual perception of 
the underfanding, and confequent Gane of the heart, in. 
contemplating: 
