Ejectment is in the common law the name given to the civil action to recover the possession of and title to land. It has replaced the old Real Actions as well as the various possessory assizes. This article concerns the common-law legal system, as contrasted with the civil law legal system; for other meanings of the term, within the field of law, see common law (disambiguation). ...
I'm no lawyer, but maybe I can help. Ejectment happens when a claimant to ownership takes the present titled owner, and kicks his butt off the land, thereby ejecting him.
It should be noted that the term "ejectment" applies in law to distinct classes of proceedings - ejectments as between rival claimants to land, and ejectments as between those who hold, or have held, the relation of landlord and tenant.
In the United States, the old English action of ejectment was adopted to a very limited extent, and where it was so adopted has often been superseded, as in Connecticut, by a single action for all cases of ouster, disseisin or ejectment.
In some of the states a tenant against whom an action of ejectment is brought by a stranger is bound under a penalty, as in England, to give notice of the claim to the landlord in order that he may appear and defend his title.
A defendant in an ejectment suit is not estopped to contest on appeal an adverse judgment on account of prematurely making demand for the trial of his rights under occupying claimant act, and may upon motion withdraw such demand thus prematurely made.
A recovery by plaintiff in an ejectment suit may be defeated by defendant showing title in himself; and title in defendant may be shown, though it be acquired subsequent to the commencement of the action.
WEST, C. ΒΆ1 This suit in ejectment was begun in the district court of Woods county by defendant in error against plaintiff in error to recover possession of certain lots located in the town of Alva, in said county.
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