Ejectment

An action which lies to recover the possession of lands, with damages and costs for the wrongful detention. It is in form the old personal action of ejection of farm, which lay to recover a term for years, adapted to the purpose of trying title to the freehold; and the fictions which distinguish it are merely the essential features of the old action, viz., a lease, an entiy, and an ouster. Ejectment of ward, Egettement de garde, I. fr. v. De ejectione custodicB.