eviction

Noun
  1. Action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy);
    No physical expulsion or legal process is involved (synset 101197394)
    referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority
    is a type of: coercion, compulsion - using force to cause something to occur
    same as: constructive eviction
  2. The expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law (synset 101196821)
    referred to in: jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority
    is a type of: due process, due process of law - (law) the administration of justice according to established rules and principles; based on the principle that a person cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards
    subtypes:
    • ouster - a wrongful dispossession
    • actual eviction - the physical ouster of a tenant from the leased premises; the tenant is relieved of any further duty to pay rent
    • retaliatory eviction - an eviction in reprisal for the tenant's good-faith complaints against the landlord; illegal in many states
    same as: dispossession, legal ouster

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