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EJECTION

Volume 7 · 74 words · 1810 Edition

in the animal economy, the evacuation, or discharging any thing through some of the excretories, as by stool, vomit, &c.

in Scots Law, is the turning out the possessor of any heritable subject by force; and is either legal or illegal. Legal ejection is where a person having no title to possess, is turned out by the authority of law. Illegal ejection is one person's violently turning another out of possession without lawful authority.