Emily Dickinson Lexicon

E-JECT'MENT, n.

1. Literally, a casting out; a dispossession.
2. In law, a writ or action which lies for the recovery of possession of land from which the owner has been ejected, and for trial of title. Ejectment may be brought by the lessor against the lessee for rent in arrear, or for holding over his term; also by the lessee for years, who has been ejected before the expiration of his term. Encyc.