Evict

[from Lat. evincere, q. v.] In the civil law. To take something from a person by virtue of a judicial sentence or recovery at law. Evincere est aliquid vinr cendo auferre,* Potkier Contr, of Sale, part 2, ch.

1, sect. 2, art. 1.

In the common law. To recover land by process of law. " If the land is evicted, no rent shall be pwd."

10 Co. 128 a.

The term is now applied to a tenant against whom land is recovered, or who is otherwise compelled to leave the demised premises. ''If the tenant be evicted from the lands demised to him, by a title paramount, before the rent falls due, he will be discharged from the payment of the rent."

3 Eent*s Com, 464.

See Eviction.

See Eviction.