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Quare ejecit infa terminum

for therein are two things recovered, as well restitution of the term of years, as damages for the ouster or wrong, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 3 William Blackstone 199 (1768)

Monstrans de droit

the subject has the right. If the right be determined against the Crown, the judgment is that of ouster le main or amoveasmanus, by which judgment the Crown is instantly out of possession, and it therefore needs

Consent-rule

for what purpose he intended to defend, and undertook to confess not only the fictitious lease, entry, and ouster, but that he was in possession.

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Entry

must make different entries. This remedy by entry takes place in three only of the five species of ouster-viz., abatement, intrusion, and disseisin; for as in these the original entry of the wrongdoer was unlawful, they may

Disseisin

vacant; but an attack on him who is in actual possession, and turning him out; it is an ouster from a freehold in deed, as abatement and intrusion are ousters in law, 3 Steph. Com. A title

Amotion

Amotion, a putting away, a removing, deprivation or ouster of possession. In municipal borough, a removal from his office of a councillor by his fellow-councillors, frequently exercised

ousting

the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out ouster

Eviction

from anothers possession by due course of law dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title ejectment ouster

Disseizin

The act of disseizing an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold

Tresayle

Tresayle, an abolished writ sued on ouster by abatement on the death of the grand-father's grandfather.

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