Ejectment - Law Dictionary Search Results
Sufferance, Tenancy at
he declares the continuance of the tenant tortious and wrongful, or demands possession, or brings his action of ejectment to recover possession, which he may do without any previous demand, Woodfall, L. and T.
Doe John
The fictitious lessee acting as plaintiff in the common law action of ejectment the fictitious defendant being usually denominated Richard Roe Hence a fictitious name for a party real or fictitious
Eviction
etc from anothers possession by due course of law dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title ejectment ouster
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Action
1254). For old forms of actions, see under their respective titles-e.g., COVENANT; ASSUMPSIT; TRESPASS; CASE; TROVER; DETINUE; REPLEVIN; EJECTMENT. See also VENUE. The term 'action' is now applied to all proceedings in the Supreme Court which would
Assize, or assise
wrongfully thrust out of their possessions. These writs are abolished, and recourse is had to an action of ejectment, tried at Nisi Prius. (II) The other division of commissions is special, granted to certain judges to try
Bail
mesne process bail in civil cases is virtually extinct, but it may still be required in actions of ejectment brought by landlords. See (English) Common Law Procedure Act, 1852 (15 & 16 Vict. c. 76), ss. 213,
Writ
1833, abolished all writs in real and mixed actions (except in dower unde nihil habet, quare impedit or ejectment), expressly naming sixty abolished writs (e.g., the writ of right de rationabili parte, of quo jure, of assize
Tenants' Compensation Act, 1890
tenant of his becoming such after mortgage with-out concurrence of the mortgagee, is a mere tres-passer, liable to ejectment without notice, and so liable to lose all his growing crops, etc., without compensation from the mortgagee. The
Super-institution
advantage of a super-institution is, that is enables the party who obtains it to try his title by ejectment, without putting him to his quare impedit; but many inconveniences thence following (e.g., the uncertainty to whom tithes
Cause of action
there is a fresh dispossession there is no difficulty in holding that a fresh suit is maintainable for ejectment, because the fresh trespass creates a fresh cause of action, Ajit Chopra v. Sadhu Ram, (2000) 1 SCC
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