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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Late Latin ''evictus'', past participle of ''evincere'', from Latin, to [[vanquish]], win a point.
==Definitions==
*1a : to recover ([[property]]) from a person by legal [[process]]
:b : to put (a tenant) out by legal process
*2: to [[force]] out : expel
==Description==
'''Eviction''' is the removal of a tenant from rental [[property]] by the landlord. In some [[jurisdictions]] it may also involve the removal of persons from premises that were [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreclosure foreclosed] by a mortgagee (often, the prior owners who defaulted on a mortgage).
Depending on the laws of the jurisdiction, eviction may also be known as unlawful detainer, summary possession, summary dispossess, summary process, forcible detainer, ejectment, and repossession, among other terms. Nevertheless, the term eviction is the most commonly used in [[communications]] between the landlord and tenant.
Depending on the jurisdiction involved, before a tenant can be evicted, a landlord must win an eviction lawsuit or prevail in another step in the [[legal]] process. It should be borne in [[mind]] that eviction, as with ejectment and certain other related terms, has precise [[meanings]] only in certain historical contexts (e.g., under the English [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law common law] of past centuries), or with respect to specific jurisdictions. In present-day [[practice]] and procedure, there has come to be a wide variation in the [[content]] of these terms from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eviction]
[[Category: Law]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Late Latin ''evictus'', past participle of ''evincere'', from Latin, to [[vanquish]], win a point.
==Definitions==
*1a : to recover ([[property]]) from a person by legal [[process]]
:b : to put (a tenant) out by legal process
*2: to [[force]] out : expel
==Description==
'''Eviction''' is the removal of a tenant from rental [[property]] by the landlord. In some [[jurisdictions]] it may also involve the removal of persons from premises that were [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreclosure foreclosed] by a mortgagee (often, the prior owners who defaulted on a mortgage).
Depending on the laws of the jurisdiction, eviction may also be known as unlawful detainer, summary possession, summary dispossess, summary process, forcible detainer, ejectment, and repossession, among other terms. Nevertheless, the term eviction is the most commonly used in [[communications]] between the landlord and tenant.
Depending on the jurisdiction involved, before a tenant can be evicted, a landlord must win an eviction lawsuit or prevail in another step in the [[legal]] process. It should be borne in [[mind]] that eviction, as with ejectment and certain other related terms, has precise [[meanings]] only in certain historical contexts (e.g., under the English [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law common law] of past centuries), or with respect to specific jurisdictions. In present-day [[practice]] and procedure, there has come to be a wide variation in the [[content]] of these terms from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eviction]
[[Category: Law]]
