Ejectione Custodle

Lat. [L. Fr. ejectment de garde.^ In old practice. Ejectment of ward. A writ which anciently lay against him who turned out a guardian from any land during the minority of the heir. Beg. Grig. 162. F. i^. B. 139, L. Litt. sect. 323. First mentioned in the statute of Westminster 2. 2 Beetfes* Hist. 208, 325. EJECTIONE FIRM^. L. Lat [L. Fr. ejectment de firme^ Ejection, or ejectment of farm. The name of a writ or action of trespass, which lay at common law where lands or tenements were let for a term of years, and afterwards the lessor, reversioner, remainder-man, or any stranger, ^ected or ousted the lessee of his term, ferme, ox farm, (ipsum a firma efecU.) In this case the latter might have his writ of ejection, by which he recovered at first damages for the trespass only, but it was afterwards made a remedy to recover back the term itself, or the remainder of it, with damages. Beg. Orig. 227 b. F. i^. B. 220, F. G. 3 Bl. Com. 199. Idtt. sect 322. Crabb*s Hist. 290, 448. See 8 Beeves* Hist. 390. It is the foundation of the modem action of ejectment See Ejectment, Firma, Ferm£.