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Origin and history of eviction

eviction(n.)

mid-15c., "restoration, recovery," from Old French éviction and directly from Late Latin evictionem (nominative evictio) "recovery of one's property (by judicial decision)," noun of action from past-participle stem of evincere, literally "overcome, conquer" (see evict). From 1580s as "dispossession by judicial sentence, the recovery of lands or tenements from another's possession by due course of law."

also from mid-15c.

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evict(v.)

mid-15c., "recover (property) by judicial means," from Latin evictus, past participle of evincere "overcome and expel, conquer, subdue, vanquish; prevail over; supplant," from assimilated form of ex "out," or perhaps here merely intensive (see ex-) + vincere "conquer" (see vincible).

The sense of "expel by legal process" first recorded in English 1530s, from a post-classical sense of the Latin word. Related: Evicted; evicting. Compare evince.

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