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RETALIATORY EVICTION
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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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