eviction
i vik shuhn
- n 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
- n the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law
- Court orders a halt to the mass eviction of Tamils from the capital, but their fear of persecution remains.
- Before eviction writs can be enforced, it must be shown that the people to be evicted have been told why it is happening and given an opportunity to solve the problem.
- The eviction went off relatively smoothly, although eight people were slightly injured, one of them a police officer who had acid thrown in his face by a settler militant.