- eviction, constructive eviction - 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
--1 is a kind of compulsion, coercion
Derived form: verb evict1 - eviction, dispossession, legal ouster - the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law
--2 is a kind of due process, due process of law
--2 has particulars: ouster; actual eviction; retaliatory evictionDerived form: verb evict2