ejectment

American  

[ih-jekt-muhnt] / ɪˈdʒɛkt mənt /

noun

1. the act of ejecting.

2. Law. a possessory action wherein the title to real property may be tried and the possession recovered.

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ejectment British  

/ ɪˈdʒɛktmənt /

noun

1. property law (formerly) an action brought by a wrongfully dispossessed owner seeking to recover possession of his land

2. the act of ejecting or state of being ejected; dispossession

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Etymology

Origin of ejectment

First recorded in 1560–70; eject + -ment

Example Sentences

“They just can’t access the summary ejectment proceedings” for such bills, he said.

From Washington Times • Oct. 8, 2016

Miss Ware, a lady residing at Claydon, to whom, it was stated, the property belonged, was communicated with, and she instructed her solicitors to take the necessary steps for the ejectment of Ignatius. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles

The object of their solicitude recovered and was sent to the field, and finding my writs of ejectment were treated with contemptuous silence, I sought an explanation.

From The Women of the Confederacy by Underwood, J. L.

His frugality, while he continued the incumbent, saved him some hundreds of pounds, so that he was better provided for after his ejectment than many of his brethren.

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 Coleman, Thomas

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 Coleman, Thomas