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