noun
- Action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved.
- synonyms: constructive eviction
- The expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law.
- synonyms: dispossession, legal ouster
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