ejectment
Example Sentences
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“They just can’t access the summary ejectment proceedings” for such bills, he said.
From Washington Times • Oct. 8, 2016
Robert Wild, D.D., who was ejected from the living of Ayno, in this county, after his ejectment came to reside at Oundle.
From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Coleman, Thomas
Apparently they had been considering his ejectment, had found it for some reason or other not to be feasible, and had substituted the offer of compensation....
From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver
The probability is, that some of the people to whom he had ministered would become Nonconformists with their pastor; but whether he obtained any opportunities of preaching to them after his ejectment is not known.
From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Coleman, Thomas
John Doe and Richard Roe, names of an imaginary plaintiff and opponent in the old legal action for ejectment, and proverbial term for a legal action.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
