retaliatory eviction

Definitions of retaliatory eviction
  1. noun
    an eviction in reprisal for the tenant's good-faith complaints against the landlord; illegal in many states
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    dispossession, eviction, legal ouster
    the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law
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