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noun
abridgment, assumption, bereavement, condemnation, confiscation, dislodgment, disownment, disqualification, distrust, divestment, ejection, eviction, expropriation, expulsion, foreclosure, forfeiture, ouster, privation, removal, taking, usurpation
associated concepts: adverse possession, ejection, landlord-tenant, wrongful dispossession, wrongful eviction
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abridgment (disentitlement), appropriation (taking), assumption (seizure), attachment (seizure), condemnation (seizure), disqualification (rejection), disseisin, distraint, distress (seizure), eviction, expropriation (divestiture), expulsion, foreclosure, forfeiture (act of forfeiting), garnishment, infringement, ouster, privation, taking
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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n. The act of removing someone from a tenancy in, or the possession of, real property.
Webster's New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000.
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The wrongful, nonconsensual ouster or removal of a person from his or her property by trick, compulsion, or misuse of the law, whereby the violator obtains actual occupation of the land. Dispossession encompasses intrusion, disseisin, or deforcement.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
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The wrongful, nonconsensual ouster or removal of a person from his or her property by trick, compulsion, or misuse of the law, whereby the violator obtains actual occupation of the land. Dispossession encompasses intrusion, disseisin, or deforcement.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.