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
John Doe and Richard Roe, names of an imaginary plaintiff and opponent in the old legal action for ejectment, and proverbial term for a legal action.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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 William Hazlitt
Now he was faced with a threat of ejectment from the landlord, who had heard of the wilful damage to his property, plus the cost of a new door.
From Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Hebert Jenkins
Miss Ware, a lady residing at Claydon, to whom, it was stated, the property belonged, was communicated with, and she instructed her solicitors to take the necessary steps for the ejectment of Ignatius.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie
