dispossession
Noun
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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 authorityis 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 safeguardssubtypes:
- 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: eviction, legal ouster -
Freeing from evil spirits (synset 105987339)
is a type of: supernaturalism - a belief in forces beyond ordinary human understandingsame as: exorcism
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