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

I should be sorry to have an ejectment served upon me for any notions I may choose to entertain there.

From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by Hazlitt, William

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

He was congratulated one morning in the "Marine" Tap on having escaped ejectment.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver

As Mrs. Edwards examined carefully the receipt he gave, he remarked, with his sinister smile— 'His lordship requires you to pay due regard to the ejectment notice served upon you.

From The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty by Banks, Mrs. G. Linnaeus