1. Action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved
   - constructive eviction 
2. The expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law
   - dispossession, legal ouster

Derived forms: evictions

See also: evict

Type of: coercion, compulsion, due process, due process of law

Encyclopedia: Eviction

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