ejectment

Example Sentences

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“They just can’t access the summary ejectment proceedings” for such bills, he said.

From Washington Times • Oct. 8, 2016

The object of their solicitude recovered and was sent to the field, and finding my writs of ejectment were treated with contemptuous silence, I sought an explanation.

From The Women of the Confederacy by Underwood, J. L.

The anathema which had been pronounced against him, however, had impaired his credit, and the clergy of Bruges had little difficulty in procuring his ejectment.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

I thanked heaven that I had at least been firm about not taking the children; for the dogs, at all events, the moment of summary ejectment would arrive sooner or later.

From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin

The rest were nominees of large Protestant proprietors who returned members for every squalid hamlet on their estates, and kept their voters in the condition of tame dogs through a constant terror of ejectment.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis