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Casual ejector

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In practice

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

3 Bl. Comm. 203; 3 Steph. Comm 670 ; French v. Robb, 67 N. J. Law. 260, 51 Atl. 509, 57 In R. A. 956, 91 Am. St Rep. 433.