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Ouster

a motion of possession from an estate of years, which takes place by a like kind of disseisin, ejection, or turning out of the tenant from the occupation of the land during the continuance of his term,

Oswald's law

Oswald's law, the law by which was effected the ejection of married priests, and the introduction of monks into churches, by Oswald, Bishop of Worcester, about A.D. 964.

Ejectment

respect thereof exceeds 100l. a year. As to mesne profits, see that title. See also RENT RESTRICTION. The ejection of an owner or occupier from property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.

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Ejectment

A casting out a dispossession an expulsion ejection as the ejectment of tenants from their homes

Occupavit

Occupavit, a writ that lay for him who was ejected from his freehold in time of war, as the writ of novel disseisin lay for one disseised in

Recovery of land

and 139 of the County Courts Act, 1888, were to be so called in distinction from actions of ejectment under s. 59, ibid., but by the County Courts Act, 1934, s. 48, county courts have jurisdiction over

Quiet enjoyment

no title to the demised premises may safely enter into the qualified covenant for quiet enjoyment, for an ejectment of the lessee by the real owner would not be an ejectment by a person claiming by the

Roe, Richard

Roe, Richard, otherwise Troublesome, the casual ejector and fictitious defendant in ejectment, whose services are no longer invoked. See JOHN DOE, and EJECTMENT.

Mixed actions

character of real actions, and were often so called, but they are now abolished, except the action of ejectment, 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27. Correctly speaking, however, ejectment is in its form a species of

John Doe

the name which was usually given to the fictitious lessee of the plaintiff in the mixed action of ejectment; he was sometimes called Goodtitle. See EJECTMENT. So the Romans had their fictitious personages in law proceedings, as

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