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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ouster \oust"er\, n. prob. fr. the of. infin. oster, used
substantively. see oust.
a putting out of possession; dispossession; disseizin; -- of
a person.
1913 webster
ouster of the freehold is effected by abatement,
intrusion, disseizin, discontinuance, or deforcement.
--blackstone.
1913 webster
2. expulsion; ejection; as, his misbehavior caused his ouster
from the party; -- of a person, from a place or group.
pjc
ouster le main. ouster + f. la main the hand, l. manus.
law a delivery of lands out of the hands of a guardian,
or out of the king's hands, or a judgement given for that
purpose. --blackstone.
1913 webster
see also:
oust ouster le main
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dispossession \dis`posses"sion\, n. cf. f. d'epossession.
1. the act of putting out of possession; the state of being
dispossessed. --bp. hall.
1913 webster
2. law the putting out of possession, wrongfully or
otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no
matter in what title; -- called also ouster.
1913 webster
see also:
ouster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
ouster
n 1: a person who ousts or supplants someone else syn: ejector
2: a wrongful dispossession
3: the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out syn: ousting
see also:
ejector ousting
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
26 moby thesaurus words for "ouster":
booting out, bouncer, chucker, chucker-out, defenestration,
detrusion, discharge, dislodgment, dispossession, ejection,
ejectment, ejector, eviction, evictor, expeller, expulsion,
extrusion, jettison, kicking downstairs, obtrusion, ousting,
rejection, removal, the boot, the bounce, throwing out
- [5] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
ouster, torts. an ouster is the actual turning out, or keeping excluded, the
party entitled to possession of any real property corporeal.
2. an ouster can properly be only from real property corporeal, and
cannot be committed of anything movable; 1 car. p. 123; s. c. 11 eng. com.
law r. 339; 2 bouv. 1 inst. n. 2348; 1 chit. pr. 148, note r; nor is a mere
temporary trespass considered as an ouster. any continuing act of exclusion
from the enjoyment, constitutes an ouster, even by one tenant in common of
his co-tenant. co. litt. 199 b, 200 a. vide 3 bl; com. 167; arch. civ. pl.
6, 14; 1 chit. pr. 374, where the remedies for an ouster are pointed out.
vide judgment of respondent ouster.
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