ouster : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: ouster	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for ouster
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ouster n a person who ousts or supplants someone else [syn: ouster, ejector] a wrongful dispossession the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out Synonym(s): ouster, ousting
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ouster \Oust"er\, n. [Prob. fr. the OF. infin. oster, used substantively. See {Oust}.] A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection; disseizin. Ouster of the freehold is effected by abatement, intrusion, disseizin, discontinuance, or deforcement. --Blackstone. {Ouster le main}. [Ouster + F. la main the hand, L. manus.] (Law) A delivery of lands out of the hands of a guardian, or out of the king's hands, or a judgement given for that purpose. --Blackstone.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dispossession \Dis`pos*ses"sion\, n. [Cf. F. d[82]possession.] 1. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. --Bp. Hall. 2. (Law) The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also {ouster}.