Ejectment - Law Dictionary Search Results
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
Casual ejector
Casual ejector, the fictitious Richard Roe in the mixed action of ejectment, before the fiction was abolished by the (English) C. L. P. Act, 1852. See Ejectment.
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
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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.
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
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,
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
Spitting
Spitting, means voluntary ejection of saliva from the mouth after or without chewing and ejection of mucus from the nose with or
Chattels or catals
he has, in general, no other remedy than by personal action (see TROVER), while a mixed action of ejectment (q.v.), in which the plaintiff could recover the specific property was available in the case of; chattels real.'
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