Ejectment - Law Dictionary Search Results
Restitution, Writ of
the Court will grant an attachment. A writ of restitution may also be awarded when a judgment in ejectment is upset. Restitution takes place when there has been a writ of restitution before granted; and restitution is
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.
Remittitur damnum
for the excess, even in a subsequent term and after error brought. The damages were usually remitted in ejectment and replevin where judgment was signed by confession or default, 2 Chit. Arch. Prac., 12th Edn. 1517.
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Common Pleas, the Court of
in criminal cases, and was concurrent with that of the King' Bench and Exchequer in personal actions and ejectment. It had a peculiar or exclusive jurisdiction in the following cases:- (I.) Formal or plenary. (1) Real actions,
County Courts
demand or damage claimed is notmore than 100l. except libel, slander, seduction, or breach of promise of marriage, ejectment where either the value of the lands or the rent exceeds 100l. a year, and actions iin which
Dem
Dem. E.g., Doe dem. Smith, Doe, on the demise of Smith. See EJECTMENT.
Deserted premises
c. 52; and 3 & 4 Vict. c. 84, s. 13. See Woodfall's Land and Ten. And see EJECTMENT
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
Estoppel
i.e., by conduct or representation, as that a tenant cannot dispute his landlord's title; bringing an action of ejectment is an unequivocal act, Serjeant v. Nash, (1903) 2 KB 304. A false representation to create an estoppel
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
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