ouster le main

English

Noun

ouster le main

  1. (law) A delivery of lands out of the hands of a guardian, or out of the king's hands, or a judgement given for that purpose.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ouster le main in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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