单词 | ejectment |
释义 | ejectmentn. 1. a. Law. The act or process of ejecting a person from his holding. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > expulsion or driving out > specific people from a place, position, or possession outputtinga1387 voidingc1435 ejectmentc1523 exposition1530 extrusion1540 ejection1566 expulse1567 Jack Drum1592 eviction1599 ousting1858 bounce1876 c1523 J. Rastell Expos. Terminorum Legum Anglorum sig. E.1 A wryt of eiectment of ward lyeth where a man is put out of the ward of the land without the body of the infaunt.[Fr. brefe de eiectment de gard]. 1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Aug. The Irish land question divides itself naturally into three great points—improvements, tenant right, and ejectment. b. In wider sense, = ejection n. 2 (but chiefly with allusion to a.). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > expulsion or driving out outputtinga1387 outcastinga1398 outing1440 deboutement1481 expulsiona1513 expulsing1528 expelling1532 expulsement1537 propulsation1578 expulsure1598 ejectment1602 outcast1602 abandoning1611 unroosting1615 propulsion1626 eliminationa1631 chucking-out1881 1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 359 This Eiectment of the Britons. 1672 H. Stubbe Justif. War against Netherlands 60 Continued after their [the Danes'] ejectment, by our English Kings. 1850 H. Martineau Hist. Eng. during 30 Years' Peace II. v. xiii. 397 Forcible ejectments of the negroes from their habitations. 1870 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David I. Ps. xxiv. 1 [Man] is but a tenant at will..liable to instantaneous 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. ΚΠ 1697 H. Prideaux Lett. (1875) 188 An ejectment hath been left at Sr H. Hobarts house for 8000l. 1715 Act Reg. Papists 2 Geo. I in London Gaz. (1716) No. 5455/2 He may bring an Ejectment upon his own Demise. 1755 E. Young Centaur vi, in Wks. (1757) IV. 253 But will not be at the trouble of bringing a writ of ejectment. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 199 A writ then of ejectione firmae, or action of trespass in ejectment. 1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 216 Actions of ejectment were commenced in the courts at Albany. 1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 45 He might bring his ejectment. 1886 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. (ed. 10) III. 415. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > cast up by sea or flood wrack1428 water-wrack1605 rack1655 ejectments1658 wrack-goods1671 rejectamenta1791 rejection1838 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 124 Ejectments of the Sea. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1523 |
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