forcible detainer

forcible detainer
n.
(1) Using force to hold someone in custody.
(2) A statutory remedy allowing someone who owns property to take possession of it from someone who refuses to relinquish it;
see also detainer

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.


forcible detainer

Webster's New World Law Dictionary. . 2000.


forcible detainer
A summary and expeditious statutory remedy used by a party entitled to actual possession of premises to secure its possession, where the occupant initially in lawful possession of it refuses to relinquish it when his or her right to possession ends.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


forcible detainer
A summary and expeditious statutory remedy used by a party entitled to actual possession of premises to secure its possession, where the occupant initially in lawful possession of it refuses to relinquish it when his or her right to possession ends.

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