De Ejectione Firmæ

A writ which lay at the suit of the tenant for years against the lessor, reversioner, remainderman, or stranger who had himself deprived DE EJECTIONE FIRMA By agradual extension of the scope of this form of action its object was made to include not only damages for the unlawful detainer, but ulso the possession for the remainder of the term, and eventually the possession of land generally. And, as it turned on the right of possession, this invelyed a determination of the right of property, or the title, and thus arose the modern action of ejectment.