Definition of Dispossession

1. Noun. The expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law.

Exact synonyms: Eviction, Legal Ouster
Generic synonyms: Due Process, Due Process Of Law
Specialized synonyms: Ouster, Actual Eviction, Retaliatory Eviction
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Dispossess, Evict

2. Noun. Freeing from evil spirits.
Exact synonyms: Exorcism
Generic synonyms: Supernaturalism
Terms within: Evocation, Summoning
Derivative terms: Exorcist, Exorcize

Definition of Dispossession

1. n. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed.

Definition of Dispossession

1. Noun. The act of dispossessing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dispossession

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispossession

dispositional
dispositionalism
dispositionalist
dispositionalists
dispositioned
dispositioning
dispositions
dispositive
dispositively
dispositor
disposits
dispossess
dispossessed
dispossesses
dispossessing
dispossession
dispossessions
dispossessor
dispossessors
dispost
disposted
disposting
disposts
disposure
disposures
disprad
dispraise
dispraised
dispraiser
dispraisers

Literary usage of Dispossession

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, William Draper Lewis (1902)
"CHAPTER X. OF INJURIES TO REAL PROPERTY; AND FIRST OF Dispossession, OR OUSTER OF THE FREEHOLD. *i67] *I COME now to consider such injuries as affect that ..."

2. A Treatise on Possession of Land: With a Chapter on the Real Property by John Mason Lightwood (1894)
"A.—Dispossession and Discontinuance of Possession of Land. ... It is a dispossession both in fact and in law. The actual possession of A., the old possessor ..."

3. Select Cases on the Law of Torts: With Notes, and a Summary of Principles by John Henry Wigmore (1912)
"Possession and Dispossession are each other's correlatives, ... (2) Dispossession is the relation of another person, M, as against the first person A, ..."

4. The Progress of Continental Law in the Nineteenth Century by John Henry Wigmore, Edwin Montefiore Borchard, Frederick Pollock (1918)
"Judicial Dispossession of Authority. — To terminate these abuses, ... In place of a voluntary renunciation was substituted a judicial dispossession. ..."

5. The Most Material Parts of Blackstone's Commentaries, Reduced to Questions by John C. Devereux, William Blackstone, Asa Kinne (1891)
"It cannot be an actual dispossession, but it depends on their respective natures and various kinds, ... OF Dispossession, OE OUSTER, OF CHATTELS REAL. 1. ..."

6. Essentials of the Law by Marshall Davis Ewell (1915)
"[167] Ouster, or dispossession, is a wrong or injury that carries with it the amotion ... And such ouster, or dispossession, may either be of the freehold, ..."

7. History of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1899)
"... or forcible dispossession of freeholds, makes one at the most considerable articles in our law-books.« Highway robbery was from the earliest times a ..."

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