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Definition of Ejectment
1. n. A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes.
Definition of Ejectment
1. Noun. A casting out. ¹
2. Noun. (legal) A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ejectment
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ejectment
Literary usage of Ejectment
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)
"These tenants therefore have the same remedy for the ouster of their possession
as the tenant of the freehold,—an ejectment.—STEWART. (2) [As a freehold. ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"Prior to the Code of 1863 a Judgment in ejectment was not conclusive as to the
title between the parties thereto. Parker v. Stam- baugh, 71 Ga. 735. ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"Judgment in ejectment under Arkansas statute —effect as a bar. A final Judgment
In ejectment, where the title was the subject of controversy prosecuted ..."
4. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence, and Digest of Proofs, in Civil by Thomas Starkie (1891)
"In ejectment by a mortgagee against an assignee under the Lords' Act, a letter
written by the mortgagor to the plaintiff before the assignment is evidence ..."
5. An Abridgment of the Law of Nisi Prius by William Selwyn (1845)
"ejectment. I. Of the Nature of the Action of ejectment, ... In what Cases previous
Steps must be taken, before ejectment brought, p. 705. ..."
6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"If a recovery in ejectment, founded on a mere right or license such as that
acquired by ... In an action of •ejectment against him, has been declared void, ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf (1883)
"ejectment. § 303. ejectment defined. This, which was originally a personal action
of trespass, is now a mixed action, for the recovery of land and damages, ..."
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