Ouster

" Amotion of possession: dispossession. ^ Originally, an injury affecting a right in realty. Amotion of a freehold is by abatement, intrusion, disseisin, discontinuance, deforcement. Amotion of a chattel real is by dispossessing a tenant holding by statute-merchant, statute-staple, elegit, or imder an estate for years, s A wrongful dispossession or exclusion of a party from real property who is entitled to the possession.' An entry upon the land of another is an ouster of the legal possession arising from the title, if made under claim and color of right; otherwise, it is a mere ■ Heiss V. Murphy, 40 Wis. 290 (1876).

2 Harlow v. Tufts, 4 Cush. 453 (1849); Commonwealth «. pejardin, 128 Mass. 47 (1878); ib. 433; 112 id. 411; 6 Cush. 143; 20 Pick. 201; 14 Gray, 440; 140 Mass. 463; 40 Barb. 574; 67 N. Y. 149; 9 Ohio, 11; 8 Brewst. 325; 9 Tex. 521; 23 How. 117; 117 U. S. 610. s The City of Salem, 31 F. B. 618 (1887); Oregon Laws, 1876, No. 9. < Commonwealth v. Rice, 9 Mete. 258 (1845). « Downing II.

Marshall, 23 N. Y. 388 (1861). '» Kenney v. Sweeney, 14 E. I. 682 (1884). ' F. outre: L. ultra, beyond. ' [3 Bl. Com. 167, 198. trespass. The " intention " guides the entry, and fixes its character.' Compare amotion. Judgment of ouster. In proceedings by quo warranto, excludes an intruder from a public office. 2 Ouster le main. Out of his hands. See Ward, 3. Compare Respondeat, Ouster.