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evict
evict [Medieval Latin evictus, past participle of evincere to recover (property) by legal process, from Latin, to vanquish, regain possession of] : to put (a tenant) out of property by force, by virtue of a paramount...
ex relatione
ex relatione [Medieval Latin] : by or on the relation or information of NOTE: The abbreviation for ex relatione ex rel., is used in the title of informations and special proceedings to designate the interested individual,...
in esse
in esse [Medieval Latin] : in actual existence compare in posse
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factor
factor [Medieval Latin, doer, maker, agent, from Latin, maker, from facere to do, make] 1 : one who acts or transacts business for another: as a : a commercial agent who buys or sells goods for...
fieri facias
fieri facias [Medieval Latin, literally, may you cause it to be done, from words used in the writ, typically de terris et cattalis fieri facias may you raise from the lands and chattels (of the defendant)...
hereditament
hereditament [Medieval Latin hereditamentum, from Late Latin hereditare to inherit, from Latin hered- heres heir] : inheritable property
flagrante delicto
flagrante delicto [Medieval Latin, literally, while the crime is blazing] : in the very act of committing a misdeed [was caught flagrante delicto] ;also : in the midst of sexual activity
gravamen
gravamen [Medieval Latin, from Late Latin, burden, from Latin gravare to burden, from gravis heavy, grave] : gist
trespass
fiction to have been trespassory from the beginning trespass de bo·nis as·por·ta·tis [-dē-bō-nis-as-pȯr-tā-tis, -dā-bō-nēs-Ä s-pȯr-tÄ -tēs] [probably from Medieval Latin (trangressio) de bonis asportatis (trespass) concerning property carried off] : a common-law form of action to recover
real
real [Anglo-French, concerning land, property, or things (rather than persons), from Middle French, from Medieval Latin and Late Latin; Medieval Latin realis relating to things (in law), from Late Latin, actual, from Latin
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