ejectment
Americannoun
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the act of ejecting.
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Law. a possessory action wherein the title to real property may be tried and the possession recovered.
noun
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property law (formerly) an action brought by a wrongfully dispossessed owner seeking to recover possession of his land
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the act of ejecting or state of being ejected; dispossession
Etymology
Origin of ejectment
Example Sentences
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“They just can’t access the summary ejectment proceedings” for such bills, he said.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 8, 2016
An execution of ejectment was then levied against his lordship.
From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various
As Mrs. Edwards examined carefully the receipt he gave, he remarked, with his sinister smile— 'His lordship requires you to pay due regard to the ejectment notice served upon you.
From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks
A Mr. Worth, ejected from the living of Kilsby, preached at Daventry for some time after his ejectment.
From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman
John Doe and Richard Roe, names of an imaginary plaintiff and opponent in the old legal action for ejectment, and proverbial term for a legal action.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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