| 释义 |
ejectment|ɪˈdʒɛktmənt|
[f. eject v. + -ment; app. first used in legal Anglo-French.]
1. a. Law. The act or process of ejecting a person from his holding. b. In wider sense, = ejection 2 (but chiefly with allusion to a.).
1567Rastell Termes of Law 68 b, A writ of eiectement of warde lieth wher, etc. [Fr. briefe deiectment de gard gist, etc.]. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 359 This Eiectment of the Britons. 1672H. Stubbe Justif. Dutch War 60 Continued after their [the Danes'] ejectment, by our English Kings. 1851H. Martineau Hist. Peace (1877) III. v. xiii. 468 Forcible ejectments of the negroes from their habitations. 1869Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xxiv. 1 [Man] is but a tenant at will..liable to instantaneous ejectment. 1869Pall Mall G. 4 Aug., The Irish land question divides itself naturally into three great points—improvements, tenant right, and ejectment.
2. (More fully, action, writ of ejectment): ‘An action at law whereby a person ousted or amoved from an estate for years may recover possession thereof’ (Tomlins Law Dict.); the writ (otherwise de ejectione firmæ) by which this action is commenced.
An action of this kind, under which damages were claimed for a fictitious ejectment by an imaginary person, was formerly the recognized mode of trying the title to landed property.
1697Prideaux Lett. (1875) 188 An ejectment hath been left at Sr H. Hobarts house for 8000l. 1715Act Reg. Papists 2 Geo. I, in Lond. Gaz. (1716) No. 5455/2 He may bring an Ejectment upon his own Demise. 1755Young Centaur vi. Wks. 1757 IV. 253 But will not be at the trouble of bringing a writ of ejectment. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 199 A writ then of ejectione firmae, or action of trespass in ejectment. 1788J. Powell Devises (1827) II. 45 He might bring his ejectment. 1794S. Williams Vermont 216 Actions of ejectment were commenced in the courts at Albany. 1886Stephen Comm. (ed. 10) III. 415.
†3. pl. [after L. ejectamenta]. Things cast up or out. Obs. rare.
1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus II. 514 Ejectments of the Sea. |