RETALIATORY EVICTION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An eviction in reprisal for the tenant's good-faith complaints against the landlord; illegal in many states

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("retaliatory eviction" is a kind of...):

dispossession; eviction; legal ouster (the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

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