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Lien

a matter of title or special property, to reclaim the property, by action, if he have been unlawfully dispossessed of it. A lien does not import a right of sale. Sometimes a Court of Equity has decreed

Intoxicating liquor

(1) on a reference from the licensing justices (s. 19), and (2) on payment of compensation to the dispossessed licensees (s. 20). The reference is obligatory on the licensing justices when they are of opinion that the

Expropriation

Expropriation, the surrender of a claim to exclusive property; also, dispossessing an owner of his property, wholly or partially. See Housing Acts. A government taking or modification of an

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Cause of action

If a suit for possession is decreed and the decree-holder gets possession and thereafter there is a fresh dispossession there is no difficulty in holding that a fresh suit is maintainable for ejectment, because the fresh trespass

Disseizin

The act of disseizing an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold

Aiel, or Aile

(called besaile), died seised of lands in fee-simple, and on the day of his death the heir was dispossessed of his inheritance by a stranger, Fitz N. B. 222.

Ouster

A putting out of possession dispossession disseizin of a person

Lumpenproletariat

the lowest level of the proletariat comprising unskilled workers the unemployed and the dispossessed alienated from the class with with they would normally identify and having little or no class solidarity an

Eviction

state of being evicted the recovery of lands tenements etc from anothers possession by due course of law dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title ejectment ouster

Ejector

One who or that which ejects or dispossesses

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