usurpation

The act of usurping, especially the wrongful seizure of royal sovereignty.

A wrongful seizure or exercise of authority or privilege belonging to another; an encroachment.

The act of usurping; the act of seizing or occupying and enjoying the place, power, functions, or property of another without right; especially, the wrongful occupation of a throne: as, the usurpation of supreme power.

In law: Intrusion into an office or assumption of a franchise, whether on account of vacancy or by ousting the incumbent, without any color of title.

Such intrusion or assumption without lawful title.

The absolute ouster and dispossession of the patron of a church by presenting a clerk to a vacant benefice, who is thereupon admitted and instituted; intrusion. Use; usage.

The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of others; specifically, the illegal seizure of sovereign power; — commonly used with of, also used with on or upon.

Use; usage; custom.

The wrongful seizure of something by force, especially of sovereignty or other authority.

Trespass onto another’s property without permission.