Word Meanings - OUSTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection; disseizin. Ouster of the freehold is effected by abatement, intrusion, disseizin, discontinuance, or deforcement. Blackstone. Ouster le main. Etym: A delivery of lands out of the hands

Additional info about word: OUSTER

A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection; disseizin. Ouster of the freehold is effected by abatement, intrusion, disseizin, discontinuance, or deforcement. Blackstone. Ouster le main. Etym: A delivery of lands out of the hands of a guardian, or out of the king's hands, or a judgement given for that purpose. Blackstone.

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• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
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• PUTTER-ON
  An instigator. Shak.
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  Of or pertaining to intrusion.
• OUSTER
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