Ejectment
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
An action employed to try title to land; originating in the old mixed action of ejectment of farm, wherein a tenant dispossessed recovered his term and damages for the trespass. This modem action of ejectment contained many legal fictions, such as a lease by the real to the fictitious plaintiff, with entry, and ouster by a fictitious defendant called the casual ejector.