Sentence:  Jones answered all his questions with much civility, though he never remembered to have seen the petty-fogger before; and though he concluded, from the outward appearance and behaviour of the man, that he <WSD>usurped</WSD> a freedom with his betters, to which he was by no means intitled. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To take the place rightfully belonging to someone or something else.