summary possession action

summary possession action definition - business

summary possession action

A legal filing to take possession of a rental property. A summary possession action can be taken by an owner, a landlord, a tenant who has been wrongfully put or kept out of a rental unit, or by the next tenant whose rental term has commenced.

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