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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 381 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OUSTER (from Anglo-Fr. ouster, to remove, take away, O. Fr. oster, mod. Fr. oter, Eng. " oust," to eject, exclude; the derivation is not known; See also:Lat. obstare, to stand in the way of, resist, would give the See also:form but does not suit the sense; a more probable  See also:suggestion connects with a supposed haustare, from haurire, to draw See also:water; cf . " exhaust "), a legal See also:term signifying dispossession, especially the wrong or injury suffered by a See also:person dispossessed of freeholds or chattels real . The wrong-doer by getting into occupation forces the real owner to take legal steps to regain his rights . See also:Ouster of the See also:freehold may be effected by See also:abatement; i.e. by entry on the See also:death of the person seized before the entry of the See also:heir, or devisee, by intrusion, entry after the death of the See also:tenant for See also:life before the entry of the reversioner or See also:remainder-See also:man, by disseisin, the forcible or fraudulent See also:expulsion of the occupier or person seized of the See also:property . Ouster of chattels real is effected by disseisin, the turning out by force or See also:fraud of the legal proprietor before his See also:estate is determined . In feudal See also:law, the term ouster-le-See also:main (See also:Lat. amovere manum, to take away the See also:hand) was applied to a See also:writ or See also:judgment granting the See also:livery of See also:land out of the See also:sovereign's hand on the plea that he has no See also:title to it, and also to the delivery by a See also:guardian of land to a See also:ward on his coming of See also:age .

End of Article: OUSTER (from Anglo-Fr. ouster, to remove, take away, O. Fr. oster, mod. Fr. oter, Eng. " oust," to eject, exclude; the derivation is not known; Lat. obstare, to stand in the way of, resist, would give the form but does not suit the sense; a more probable
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