In areas without housing courts, lists of named defendants in unlawful detainer (eviction) suits will be compiled from court records.
en.wikipedia.org Depending on the laws of the jurisdiction, eviction may also be known as unlawful detainer, summary possession, summary dispossess, summary process, forcible detainer, ejectment, and repossession, among other terms.
en.wikipedia.org The case recognized the inequity of forcing the tenant to wait until they were confronted with an unlawful detainer action to bring up retaliatory eviction as a defense.
en.wikipedia.org Similarly, they have repeatedly undermined the detainer program for aliens who are in jail and known or suspected to be removable.
hotair.com Subsection (1) abolished the common law offence of forcible entry and any offence at common law of forcible detainer.
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