SMH Commercial Real Estate

                  A Commercial Brokerage Practice Since 1992

Eviction

Dispossession of habitation by operation of law; or the act of depriving a person of possession of land or rental property which is or asserted as held or occupied by lease or other instrument.  An act of turning a tenant out of possession, either by re-entry or other legal proceedings, such as an action of ejectment.  An act to deprive a lessee of possession of  the premises, or, an interruption of beneficial enjoyment so as to cause a lessee to abandon the premises.

 

 


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