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Definition of Ousts
1. oust [v] - See also: oust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ousts
Literary usage of Ousts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Engineering and Architectural Jurisprudence: A Presentation of the Law of by John Cassan Wait (1897)
"Objection that Such a Clause ousts Courts of Their Proper Jurisdiction, Treated.—The
argument that the stipulation for the engineers final determination ..."
2. Reports of Some Cases Adjudged in the Courts of the Lord Chancellor, Master by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Charles Purton Cooper (1841)
"6, 13. fusing to com- , Lord ousts co- Tenant by copy of court-roll shall have
a subpoena against his lord if he ousts him. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgage by William Wyllys Mackeson, Henry Arthur Smith, Richard Holmes Coote (1884)
"Specific security ousts lien. It is decided that if a factor, solicitor, or other
person having a specific or general Hen on goods in his hands, ..."
4. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1919)
"... marriage and adoption into Indian tribe ousts Federal courts of jurisdiction
over party; Greenfield School Dist. v. Hannaford Special School Diet., ..."
5. A Collection of Acts and Records of Parliament: With Reports of Cases by Henry Gwillim, Charles Ellis (1825)
"Then it v. appears to us that a modus was properly pleaded to the whole libel, '•"•""•
which ousts the ecclesiastical court of their jurisdiction; ..."
6. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1890)
"... and from whatever source the outstanding title may have been acquired.5 But
in sion of the others, but if one ousts the other or denies his tenure, ..."
7. Code of Law, Practice and Forms for Justices' and Other Inferior Courts in by Curtis Hillyer (1912)
"Bight of Possession, not Possession, ousts Justice of Jurisdiction. It is not
enough that possession is fact in controversy, or incidentally in question, ..."
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