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Casual ejector

Casual ejector, the fictitious Richard Roe in the mixed action of ejectment, before the fiction was abolished by the (English)

Doe, John

Doe, John, the fictitious plaintiff in ejectment, whose services have been dispensed with since the abolition of the fiction by the Common Law Procedure Act,

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tithe. See Vivian v. Moat, (1878) 16 Ch D 730, in which Fry, J., held landlords entitled to eject tenants without notice to quit on a letter disputing the right of the landlords to raise the rent

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Dispossessed

the word 'dispossessed' in the second proviso means to be out of possession, removed from the premises, ousted, ejected or excluded. Even where a person has a right to possession but taking the law into his hands

Dispossession

provides for it. 'Dispossess' according to Black's Law Dictionary means: 'To oust from land by legal process; to eject, to exclude from realty.' The dispossession should have been, therefore, either by legal process or by physical act

Ejectone firm'

Ejectone firm', a writ which lay to eject a tenant from his holding. See next title.

Elegit

and filed, the creditor becomes tenant by elegit; the legal estate vests in him, and he can bring ejectment or sue for the rent if the estate is in reversion, Hatton v. Haywood, (1874) LR 9 Ch

Eviction

Eviction [fr. evinco, Lat., to overcome], dispossession; also a recovery of land, etc., by form of law. See EJECTMENT. The act or process of legally dispossessing a person of law or rental property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th

Fiction

always abounded in fictions, and thre is a maxim that in fictione juris semper 'quitas existit. See, e.g., EJECTMENT; FINE; FRACTION OF A DAY; LATITAT; QUOMINUS; TROVER.

Habere facias possessionem

Habere facias possessionem (that you cause to have possession), a writ that issues for a successful plaintiff in ejectment, to put him in possession of the premises recovered. If the first writ be not executed, an alias,

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