- a person or thing that ousts
- Law an ousting or being ousted, esp. from real property; legal eviction or unlawful dispossession
- any expulsion or dismissal
Origin of ouster
Anglo-Fr, infinitive used as noun : see oustouster
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ouster
noun
- a. The act of ejecting, forcing out, or supplanting.b. The state of being ejected, forced out, or supplanted.
- One that ejects, forces out, or supplants another.
- Law The wrongful exclusion or dispossession of one from real property to which one is entitled by law.
Origin of ouster
Anglo-Norman to oust, ouster ; see oust .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural ousters)
- (historical) A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection.
- (property law) Action by a cotenant that prevents another cotenant from enjoying the use of jointly owned property.
- (now chiefly US) Specifically, the forceful removal of a politician or regime from power; coup.
Origin
From Old French ouster, oustre, a nominalization of Anglo-Norman oustre (“to oust").
Origin
oust + -er
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ouster - Legal Definition
n
- The wrongful exclusion of a person from property or dispossession of same.
- The removing from office of a public or corporate official.
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