De Ejectione Firmae

Breve. L. Lat. Writ of ejectment or ejection of farm. A writ which lay where lands or tenements were let for a term of years, (firma, firm or farm,) and afterwards the lessor, reversioner, remainderman or any stranger ejected or ousted the lessee of his term. It was originally merely a writ of trespass for the recovery of damages for such ejection, but was afterwards used as a remedy for the recovery of the term itself, and became in this way the foundation of the modern action of ejectment.

Reg. Orig. 227 b. F. N. B. 220. 3 Bl. Com. 199-201.

Bract. fol.

220. Crabb's Hist. 290. Roscoe's Real Act. 481.

See Ejectment, Firma.