Definition of ejectment in English:
ejectment
noun ɪˈdʒɛktm(ə)ntəˈdʒɛktmənt
mass nounLaw historical 1The eviction of a tenant from property.
the landlord shall serve a writ in ejectment
Example sentencesExamples
- We would seek ejectment because the people wouldn't have clear title to the land.
- Attacks on process servers grew so serious that more than one county-court judge allowed them to post their ejectment writs in the nearest town or marketplace instead of having to enter what had become a virtual combat zone.
- Lord Ashbrook dug his heels in and threatened to unleash a shower of ejectment writs if his tenants did not pay the full amount promptly - a threat that evidently proved effective.
- The true test whether a rightful owner has been dispossessed or not is whether ejectment will lie at his suit against some other person.
- There were several public meetings, a court case, a supreme court hearing and writs of ejectment, but Forsyth refused to go.
- When and where agents obtained civil-bill decrees and writs of ejectment in the county courts, thereby forcing the tenants to bear some of the legal costs, League organizers had a much easier time recruiting new members.
- The lower courts, he stated, are also continuing with the hearing of ejectment suits filed by various landlords.
- 1.1 The process by which an evicted tenant seeks to recover possession and damages.
he brought an action in ejectment against the rector
Example sentencesExamples
- An action for mesne profits, unlike ejectment, allows the claimant to claim damages for his loss during the period that he has been dispossessed.
- Certainly, if you bring an action in ejectment, if you have a right to possession of the property, you certainly can do that.
- Is it significant that it may be a form of summary remedy or an ordinary action of ejectment?
Definition of ejectment in US English:
ejectment
nounəˈdʒɛktməntəˈjektmənt
Law historical 1The action or process of evicting a tenant from property.
the landlord shall serve a writ in ejectment
Example sentencesExamples
- The true test whether a rightful owner has been dispossessed or not is whether ejectment will lie at his suit against some other person.
- When and where agents obtained civil-bill decrees and writs of ejectment in the county courts, thereby forcing the tenants to bear some of the legal costs, League organizers had a much easier time recruiting new members.
- The lower courts, he stated, are also continuing with the hearing of ejectment suits filed by various landlords.
- We would seek ejectment because the people wouldn't have clear title to the land.
- Lord Ashbrook dug his heels in and threatened to unleash a shower of ejectment writs if his tenants did not pay the full amount promptly - a threat that evidently proved effective.
- There were several public meetings, a court case, a supreme court hearing and writs of ejectment, but Forsyth refused to go.
- Attacks on process servers grew so serious that more than one county-court judge allowed them to post their ejectment writs in the nearest town or marketplace instead of having to enter what had become a virtual combat zone.
- 1.1 The action or process in which a person evicted from property seeks to recover possession and damages.
Example sentencesExamples
- Is it significant that it may be a form of summary remedy or an ordinary action of ejectment?
- An action for mesne profits, unlike ejectment, allows the claimant to claim damages for his loss during the period that he has been dispossessed.
- Certainly, if you bring an action in ejectment, if you have a right to possession of the property, you certainly can do that.