Dispossession

Usage examples of eviction.

Thus in World War I the State of New York enacted a statute which, declaring that a public emergency existed, forbade the enforcement of covenants for the surrender of the possession of premises on the expiration of leases, and wholly deprived for a period owners of dwellings, including apartment and tenement houses, within the City of New York and contiguous counties of possessory remedies for the eviction from their premises of tenants in possession when the law took effect, providing the latter were able and willing to pay a reasonable rent.

City Club and the Murphy Draying, Returfing and Sodding Company, there was a look of a couple of fires and an eviction all over the place.

The firs thing he remembered was the smiling face of Steven Blackpool as he held up the eviction notice in front of the tear-filled faces of his parents.

On hotel voice mail, three different people, on different shifts, at the Four Seasons desk, threatening me with eviction for nonpayment of room charges.

You live in the constant stink of your own fear, waiting for the next major catastrophe: pyorrhea, an eviction notice, whatever.

As he shadowboxed he loosely babbled of fraud and betrayal, redundancy, eviction.

She was in my torts class last fall and has spent most of her time since on her twin loves: our legal-aid clinic, where she helps welfare mothers avoid eviction, and her collection of statistics, by which she hopes to show that the white race is headed for self-destruction, a prospect that gladdens her.

Miss Netherton told the Meltons that they had been included in the evictions on good authority: they had been inciters in what had happened, together with the innkeeper and his wife.

They're still there, defying eviction by Russian and Kazakh military cops and armied militias.

He began with a review of the rules governing spectators, then guests, then witnesses, any infractions of which, he said slowly, would be met with immediate eviction by the bailiffs, ‘--to the prejudice of that issue to which the unruly individual or individuals appeared to be speaking, if that can be determined.

He had the habit of appearing in the various departments, taking what he called a perverse interest in the eventual eviction of the Center from Beechwoods.

A paralegal named Hector Palma handled the dirty work, the site visits, and the actual eviction, and he's become my deep throat.

We can't fight the actual eviction, but POPPA can't touch your personal property.

He sent an anonymous note informing methat the evictions were wrongful.

Thirty-one real people were waiting for me to get food stamps,locate housing, file divorces, defend criminal charges, obtain disputedwages, stop evictions, help with their addictions, and in some way snapmy fingers and find justice.