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eviction|ɪˈvɪkʃən|
[ad. L. ēvictiōn-em, n. of action f. ēvincĕre: see evict, evince.]
The action of evicting or † of evincing.
I. Law.
1. The action of recovering or taking possession of lands or property by legal process. Cf. evict v. 1.
1583T. Stocker Warres Lowe C. ii. 5 b, That reasonable satisfaction bee made..to the buyers and sellers of the Possessions and Rentes aforesaied, in respect of their euiction. a1610Healey Theophrast. (1616) To Rdr., He is lyable to make good the euiction, who selleth for another as he who, etc. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. ix. §23 The Title of the Foundation thereof, with the land thereunto belonging, were..subject to eviction. 1753Scots Mag. Mar. 127/2 The eviction or destruction of a thing mortgaged, don't extinguish the debt. 1809Tomlins Law Dict., Eviction, A recovery of lands, &c. by form of law. 1848in Wharton Law Lex.
2. The action of evicting or dispossessing a person of property, etc. In recent use, esp. the evicting a tenant from lands, houses, etc. Also attrib.
a1626Bacon (J.), The pretorian court will set back all things, and no respect had to eviction or dispossession. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) III. 322 A rent service is discharged by the eviction of the tenant out of the whole land. 1863Fawcett Pol. Econ. ii. vii. 237 Neither could the landlord have recourse to eviction. 1884Pae Eustace 69, I will get your father to order their eviction from the cottage. 1889Daily News 8 May 5/7 An exciting eviction scene occurred to-day on the property of Lord Inchiquin.
fig.1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. App. 159 On the contrary the people have a right of perpetuall eviction. 1691Bp. Lloyd God's Disposing of Kingd. i. 67 An eviction by the just sentence of God, who thus put's him out of a Trust that he abused.
II. gen.
†3. The action of conquering (a country, etc.), or of obtaining by conquest. Obs.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 366 After the Euiction from the Scots of those Countries. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xx. §31 King Henry..was not vnwilling, because..Britaine seemed clearely past possibilitie of euiction.
†4.
a. The action or process of vanquishing (a person) in argument, or of confuting (an opinion); an instance or a means of confutation; the condition of being confuted.
b. Conviction (of an accused person). Obs.
1614Bp. Hall Epist. iv. v, He hath..counsels for all doubts, evictions for all errours. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 62 All euictions there, as elsewhere, depend vpon witnesses. 1627Bp. Hall Gt. Impostor 509 Wise men..whose wisdome is frequently imployed in the triall, euiction, dooming, of malefactors. 1649― Cases Consc. iii. v, Meere error makes not an heretick..eviction and contumacy must improve his error to be heretical. 1651Gataker in Fuller's Abel Rediv., Whitaker 405 He grapled with..Rainolds..who had bin nibling..at the Preface to his eviction of Sanders his Demonstration. 1703T. N. City & C. Purch. Pref. 22 Upon Eviction I shall freely yield.
†5. The action or process of eliciting or establishing by argument; demonstration, proof. Also an instance or means of proving; an evidence, proof. Obs. Cf. evict v. 6, evince v. 4.
1621W. Sclater Tythes (1623) A 1 b, Difficultie of euiction ariseth hence: first, that, etc. 1625A. Gill Disc. Trinity 214 Faith is said to bee..an eviction or proofe of things hoped for, though they be not seene. 1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 82 For further eviction, we may yet add, that, etc. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 875 That these two Circles should continue thus..is a farther Eviction of a Providence also. 1692L'Estrange Fables 114 A Plurality of Voices..carryes the Question in all our Debates, but rather as an Expedient for Peace than an Eviction of the Right. 1755Young Centaur i. 22 It has ever been prejudicial to the truth, to labour at rational evictions of sacred mysteries. 1776G. Campbell Philos. Rhet. (1801) I. i. iv. 82 The sole and ultimate end of logic is the eviction of truth. |