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Meaning of Ouster
Dispossession . Generally, a wrongful dispossession in respect to which the aggrieved party becomes entitled to maintain an action .
Ouster Alternative Definition
(Law Fr. outre, oultre; Lat. ultra, beyond). Out; beyond; besides; farther; also; over and more. Le ouster, the uppermost. Over, respondeat ouster, let him answer over. Britt. c. 29. Ouster le mer, over the sea. Jacob. Ouster eit, he went away. 6 Coke, 41b; 9 Coke, 120. To put out; to oust. II oust, he put out or ousted. Oustes, ousted. 6 Coke, 41b. Judgment of ouster, in some states, is used to denote the judgment in quo warranto, by which one is held not entitled to an office; in others to the judgment in summary proceedings for possession of property. In Torts. The actual turning out or keeping excluded the party entitled to possession of any real property corporeal.
Synonyms of Ouster
noun
- deprivation
- dislodgment
- dispossession
- ejection
- elimination
- eviction
- exclusion
- permanent exclusion
- removal
- repudiation
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Concept of “Ouster”
Traditional meaning of ouster in the French law history (with some legal use in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in French) Over; further; beyond. Ouster le mer: beyond sea; see ESSOIN.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Ouster”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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Concept of “Ouster, Oster, Oter”
Traditional meaning of ouster, oster, oter in the French law history (with some legal use in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in French) To put out; take away; dispossess; to oust, or deprive of. Dispossession of a freehold or chattel real, or an hereditament corporeal or incorporeal; the most general term for exclusion from the possession of land; whereby the party ousted can only regain possession by employing legal remedies; see 3rd Book (“Of Private Wrongs”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 167; Robinson’s Elementary Law Rev. ed.; § 212. Ousterlemain (to remove the hand): 1. The livery, or delivery of the ward’s lands out of the hands of the guardian on the former’s arriving at the proper age; a writ against the lord for this purpose. 2. A delivery of lands out of the King’s hands by judgment for the petitioner on a monstrans de droit; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 68.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Ouster, Oster, Oter”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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