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Definition of Constructive eviction
1. Noun. Action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved.
Generic synonyms: Coercion, Compulsion
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Evict
Definition of Constructive eviction
1. Noun. (legal) : breach of a landlord/tenant relationship that occurs when the landlord does not order the tenant to leave the property, but allows the property occupied by the tenant to fall into such poor condition that it can no longer be lived in. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Constructive Eviction
Literary usage of Constructive eviction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Elementary Treatise on the American Law of Real Property by Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman (1892)
"constructive eviction. —constructive eviction results when the lessor, by his
own act or by his own procurement, renders the enjoyment of the premises ..."
2. The American Law of Real Property by Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman, Edward Joseph White (1906)
"constructive eviction. — constructive eviction results the . ... may operate as
a constructive eviction.41 It is, however, not a constructive eviction if ..."
3. Marketable Title to Real Estate: Being Also a Treatise on the Rights and by Chapman White Maupin (1896)
"173; 6 Am. Dec. 641. Fowler v. Poling, 6 Barb. (NY) 165. See, also, cases cited
post, ' • constructive eviction," p. 34*. A decree in equity, ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1912)
"473, 52 N. \V. 986, it was held that a continued neglect of duty to furnish heat
constituted a constructive eviction, provided the tenant elected to ..."
5. Marketable Title to Real Estate: Being Also a Treatise on the Rights and by Chapman White Maupin (1921)
"constructive eviction. Inability to yd possession. A constructive eviction of a
grantee, with warranty, occurs (1> Where the premises are in the adverse ..."
6. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"His action must have been caused by the acts which he asserts operated as an
eviction,11 and the right to abandon for constructive eviction must be ..."
7. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"is here necessary in order to take advantage of acts as a constructive eviction
for the tenant altogether to abandon the premises. His action must have been ..."
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