Definition of 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.

Exact synonyms: Constructive Eviction
Generic synonyms: Coercion, Compulsion
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Evict

2. Noun. The expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law.
Exact synonyms: Dispossession, 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

Definition of Eviction

1. n. The act or process of evicting; or state of being evicted; the recovery of lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due course of law; dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title; ejectment; ouster.

Definition of Eviction

1. Noun. The act of evicting. ¹

2. Noun. The state of being evicted. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Eviction

1. the act of evicting [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eviction

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Literary usage of Eviction

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

1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"The term "eviction" 1э now properly applied to every class of expulsion or emotion. ... While to prove an "eviction," according to its strict and technical ..."

2. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Covenants for Title by William Henry Rawle (1887)
"In rather an early case in New York it was said that " the previous cases in that State, taken together, show that to constitute an eviction by a stranger ..."

3. The Law of Mines and Mining in the United States by Daniel Moreau Barringer, John Stokes Adams (1897)
"C. By eviction. Technically an eviction does not terminate a lease, ... But in the case of mines an eviction practically puts an end to the lessee's rights. ..."

4. Marketable Title to Real Estate: Being Also a Treatise on the Rights and by Chapman White Maupin (1921)
"An assignment of dower by metes and bounds in the warranted premises and the placing of tho widow in possession is, of course, an eviction and breach of ..."

5. A Treatise on the American Law of Landlord and Tenant by John Neilson Taylor (1887)
"But an eviction from either the whole or part of the demised premises will have no effect upon rent due at the time of the eviction ; for the landlord is ..."

6. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, John Melville Gould, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1901)
"1 eviction, (x) — A wrongful eviction from a part of the premises demised by a of a tenant by ... 389; Biggs constitute an eviction, and intent to evict v. ..."

7. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1889)
"An invasion of the possession of the tenant by a third person, with the consent and by the authority of the landlord, will operate as an eviction.1 And the ..."

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