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OUSTER [2 records]

Record 1 2013-04-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

[D]ispossession, a wrong or injury which may be sustained in respect of hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, carrying with it the deprivation of possession; for thereby the wrongdoer gets into the actual occupation of the land or hereditament, and obliges him who has a right to seek his legal remedy in order to gain possession and damage for the injury sustained. An ouster may be either rightful or wrongful. A wrongful ouster is a disseisin. (Jowitt, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 1296).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

privation de possession : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
DEF

The wrongful dispossession or exclusion of a person from property, usually associated with the acts of a co-tenant that exclude other co-tenants from their legal right to share possession.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)

Spanish

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