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S: NOLO – https://bit.ly/2CUHeEW (last access: 9 March 2017); CalifCourts – https://bit.ly/2VBqf1C (last access: 9 March 2017).

N: 1. mid-15c., from Middle French éviction, from Late Latin evictionem (nominative evictio) “recovery of one’s property (by judicial decision),” noun of action from past participle stem of evincere, literally “overcome, conquer”.
2. Eviction, the process of dispossessing a person of land, be it lawful or unlawful. Subject to any statutory provisions, it is lawful if the person evicted has a right to possession inferior to that of the person carrying out the eviction. The delivery of possession under order of the court is sometimes called eviction. If the concerned parties do not have a landlord-tenant relationship, the process of dispossession is known as ejectment.
3. The legal process of removing a tenant from the premises for some breach of the lease …
4. Typical grounds for the eviction of a tenant include nonpayment of rent, unlawful use of the premises violating the use provisions of the lease (such as conducting a business in a rental unit leased strictly for residential purposes), and noncompliance with health and safety codes. (Reilly, 2nd ed., 1982, p. 170).
5. The word “eviction” has in latter times been understood to mean what formerly it was not intended to express … (It) has come to have a popular meaning, and to be applied to every kind of expulsion in fact. (Stroud, 4th ed., 1971, p. 951).

S: 1. OED – https://bit.ly/2TxmOaI (last access: 9 March 2017). 2. EncBrit – https://bit.ly/2H7UBpE (last access: 9 March 2017). 3 to 5. TERMIUM PLUS – http://goo.gl/yNsTJg (last access: 9 March 2017).

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CR: evicted person