Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Non dubitatur, etsi specialiter venditor evictionem non promiserit, re evicta, ex empto competere actionem

It is certain that even if the vendor has not given a special guarantee, an action ex empto lies against him, if the purchaser is evicted.

actual eviction

A physical expulsion of a person from land or rental property. constructive eviction. 1. A landlord's act of making premises unfit for occupancy, often with the result that the tenant is compelled to leave. 2. The inability of a land purchaser to obtain possession because of paramount outstanding title. ( Such an eviction usu. constitutes a breach of the covenants of warranty and quiet enjoyment.

actual eviction.

See EVICTION.

constructive eviction

See EVICTION

evict

vb. 1. To expel (a person, esp. a tenant), from real property, usu. by legal process. 2. Archaic. To recover (property or title) from a person by legal process. - evictor, n.

eviction

The act or process of legally dispossessing a person of land or rental property. See FORCIBLE ENTRY AND DETAINER. Cf. EJECTMENT.

partial eviction

See EVICTION.

retaliatory eviction

An eviction - nearly always illegal - commenced in response to a tenant's complaints or involvement in activities with which the landlord does not agree.

summary eviction

An eviction accomplished through a simplified legal procedure, without the formalities of a full trial.

total eviction

See EVICTION