Eviction

[Lat. evictio, from evincere, to overcome, to prevail in law.] In the civil law. The abandonment which one is obliged to make of a thing, in pursuance of a sentence by which he is condemned to do so.

Pothier Contr. of Sale, part 2, ch. 1, sect. 2, art. 1, n. 83.

The abandonment which a buyer is compelled to make of a thing purchased, in pursuance of a judicial sentence. Id. ibid. The sentence which orders such abandonment. Id. The depriving a buyer, without any sentence, of the power to retain the thing bought, in virtue of the sale. Id. n.

86.

The loss suffered by the buyer of the totality of the thing sold, or of a part thereof, occasioned by the right or claims of a third person. Civil Code of Louisiana, art.

2476.