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Eviction

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. Synonym: constructive eviction.

The expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law. Synonyms: dispossession, legal ouster.

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"Eviction" Quotes from Famous Books

... convenient if Newfoundland had been peopled by half a million hardy farmers, woodmen, and miners, in addition to its few fisher-folk. England has to take undergrown and underfed boys into her army now; but, if the sturdy Irishmen who have been driven to the United States by famine and eviction had been provided each with the "three acres and a cow" of Joseph Chamberlain's speeches in the valleys of the Humber or Codroy Rivers, surely the experience of Louisbourg and a hundred well-fought battles since then may tell ...

— Newfoundland and the Jingoes - An Appeal to England's Honor • John Fretwell

... the cases where tenants are bound to fish for the landlord, there is a firm conviction that the penalty of disobedience is eviction, or payment of 'liberty money.' 'We knew quite well,' said James Flawes (4964), a tenant on Quendale, 'from the statement which was made to us before, that, if any one transgressed the rule, the penalty would just be our forty days' warning.' And cases of threatened removal ...

— Second Shetland Truck System Report • William Guthrie

Words linked to "Eviction" : actual eviction, retaliatory eviction, compulsion, law, due process, due process of law, jurisprudence, evict, coercion, ouster