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Casual Ejector

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

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The nominal defendant in an action of ejectment; 80 called because, by a fiction of law peculiar to that action, he is supposed to come casuaily or by accident upon the premises, and to turn out or eject the lawful possessor.

3 Bl. Comm. 208; 8 Steph. Comm. 670,