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Evict

To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust.

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Eject 76% connected

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Exclude 76% connected

To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as,…

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Dispossession 74% connected

The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Dispossession 74% connected

The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed.

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Abandon verb · 78% connection

To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, whi…

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Action noun · 78% connection

A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforce…

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Adjudication noun · 78% connection

A deliberate determination by the judicial power; a judicial decision or sentence.

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Administrative hearing noun · 78% connection

a hearing that takes place outside the judicial process before hearing examiners who have been granted judicial authority specifically…

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Assert verb · 78% connection

To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and lib…

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Cause of action noun · 78% connection

a claim sufficient to demand judicial attention; the facts that give rise to right of action

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Cease and desist order noun · 78% connection

(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity; "injunctions were forme…

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Claim noun · 78% connection

The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim.

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Counterclaim noun · 78% connection

A claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made on him.

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Demand verb · 78% connection

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently o…

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Disclaim verb · 78% connection

To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.

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Disfranchise verb · 78% connection

To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, ho…

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Dispossess verb · 78% connection

To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usuall…

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Disseize verb · 78% connection

To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to d…

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Domain noun · 78% connection

Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership.

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Enjoining noun · 78% connection

(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity; "injunctions were forme…

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Enjoinment noun · 78% connection

(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity; "injunctions were forme…

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Equatorial noun · 78% connection

An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel t…

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