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Upper Saxony, and principality of Anhalt Zeibft: three 
miles fouth-weft of Zerbft. 
EICH'IGT, a town of Germany, in th.e circle of Up¬ 
per Saxony, and circle of Erzgeburg: four miles fouth 
of Erzgeburg. 
EICH'iV^ED, a town of Pmfiia, in the province of Na- 
tangen : fix miles fouthi-fonth-cafl: of Raftenburg. 
EICHS'FELD, or Eisfelp, a country of Germany, in 
the circle of the Lower Rhine, bounded by Ileffe, Thu¬ 
ringia, Calijnberg, and Grubenhagen, divided by moun¬ 
tains into Upper and Lower; the Upper is cold and 
mountainous, the Lower, flat, warm, and fertile, bearing 
corn, flax, and toitacco : the inhabitants of the Upper 
part are principally engaged in manufactures. The whole 
country belongs, to the electorate of Mentz. The prin¬ 
cipal towns are Heiligenftadt, Duderftadt, and Stadtvvor- 
bis. The contributions amount to 4.5,000 imperial crowns; 
the nobility pay 21S to each thoufand, the bailiwicks 500, 
the clergy 100, and the towns of Heiligenftadt and Duder¬ 
ftadt 182. 
EICK'EL, a town of Germany, in the circle of Weft- 
plralia, and county of Mark : two miles feuth-eaft of 
Giimberg. 
' EI'DE, a town of Norway : thirty-fix miles eaft-fouth- 
eaft of Berghen. 
ELDER, a river which, in a great part of its courfe, 
divides the duchy of Slefvvick from the^luchy of FIol- 
■ftein, and runs into the German ocean twelve miles well, 
fouth-weft of Lunden. 
El'DER-DUCK. See Anas.' 
EID'WALD, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Leit- 
meritz : fixteen miles weft-north-weft: of Leitnieritz. 
To EJE'CT, v. a [ejicio, ejcclum, Lat.] To throw out; 
to caft forth ; to avoid,—Tears may fpoil the eyes, but 
not wafli away the afflidtion ; fighs may exhauft the man, 
.but not eject the burthen. South. 
Infernal lightning Lillies from his throat L 
Fjcttcd fparks upon the billows float! 
The heart, as faid, from its contracted cave’, 
On the left fide ejects the bounding wave. Black-more. 
To throw out or expel from an office or poffeflion: 
It was the force of Gonqueft; force with force 
Is well ejected, when the conquer’d can. Milton, 
To expel ; to drive away; to difmifs with hatred : 
We are peremptory to difpatch 
This viperous traitor; to ejeEl him hence. Shakcfpcarc. 
To caft: away ; to rejedt.—Will any man fay, that if the 
words whoring and drinking were by parliament ejeded 
out of the Englifh tongue, we ftiould all awake next morn¬ 
ing chafte and temperate, Swift. 1 
EJEC'T!ON,yi [ejeffio, Lat. ] The act of carting out; 
expulfion.—Thefe ftories are founded on the ejedion of 
-the fallen angels from heaven. Broome. —[In phyfic.] The 
dilcharge of any thing by vomit, ftool, or any other 
•emundtory. Quincy. 
EJEC'TION, f. in Scots law, the procefs of turning 
out the poflefTor of any heritable fubjedt, by force. 
EJECTIO'NE CUSTO'Dl/E, J. ['ejeElment de garde, 
Fr.j A writ which lies againft: him that cafteth out the 
guardian from any land during the minority of the heir. 
Reg. Orig. 162. There are two other writs not unlike 
this ; the one termed ravfhmcnt de gard, and the other 
■droit de gard. See the article Guardian. 
EJECT'MENT, f. in law, an adlion by which a per- 
fon oufted or amoved from the poffeftion of an eftate for 
years, may recover that pofleftion ; winch action is now 
ftfed as the general mode of trying difputed titles to 
lands and tenements. A writ of ejdlione firm*, or'adlion 
of trefpafs in ejedtment, l.ieth where lands or tenements 
are let for a term of years, and afterwards the leffor, rever- 
fioner, remainder-man, or any ftranger, doth ejett or ouft 
the leffee of his term. In this cafe he (hull have his writ 
of ejection or ejedtmerit, to call the defendant to anfvver 
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for entering on the lands fo demifed to the plaintiff for 
a term that is nofyet expired, and ejedting him. Anil 
by this writ the plaintiff Eli all recover back his term, la¬ 
the remainder of it, with damages. 
Since the difufe of real actions, this rnixt proceeding is 
become tlie common method of trying the title .to lands 
or tenements. The writ of covenant, for breach of the 
contract contained in the leafe for years, was .anciently 
the only fpecific remedy for recovering againft tiie lelfor 
a term from which he had ejected his leffee, together 
with damages for the-oufter. But if the leffee was ejected 
by a ftranger claiming under a title fuperior to that of the 
leffor, or by a grantor of the reverfion, (who might at 
any time, by a common recovery, have deftroyed the 
term,) though the leffee might flill maintain an action 
of covenant againft the.leffor, for non-performance of his 
contraCt or leafe, yet he could not by any means recover 
the term itfelf. F.N.B. 145, If the oufter was commit¬ 
ted by a mere ftranger, without any title to the land, the 
leffor might, indeed, by a real aCtior, recover pofT } ftioa 
of the freehold, but the leffee had no otiier remedy againft' 
the ejector but in damages, by a writ of ejeclionc jirma, for 
the trefpa'fs committed in ejecting him from his farm. 
But afterwards, when the courts of equity began to oblige 
the ejedtor to make a fpecific reftitution of the .land to 
the party immediately injured, the courts of law alfo 
adopted the fame method of doing complete j office ; and, 
in the profecution of a writ of ejeCtment, introduced a 
f.pecies of remedy not warranted by the originalwrit, 
nor prayed by the declaration; viz. a judgment to re¬ 
cover the term, and a writ of poffeflion thereupon. This 
method feems to have been fettled as early as the reign 
of Edward IV. though it hath been faid to have firft be¬ 
gun under Henry VII. becaufe it probably was then firft 
applied to its prefent principal ufe, that of trying the ti¬ 
tle of the land. Bro. Ab.- F. N. B. 220. 
This remedy by ejectment is, in its origin, an adlion 
brought by one who hath a leafe for years, to repair the 
injury done him by difpojTefiion. In order, therefore, to 
convert it into a method of trying titles to the freehold, it 
is firff neceffary that the claimant do take poffeftion of the 
lands, to empower him to conftitute a leffee for years, that 
may be capable of receiving this injiiry of difpofi'eflion. 
For it would be an offence, called in our law maintenance, 
to convey a title to another, when the grantor is not in 
poffeflion of the land ; and, indeed, it was doubted at firft, 
whether this occalional pofleffion, taken merely for the 
purpofe of conveying the title, excufed the lelfor from 
the legal guilt of maintenance. 1 Ch. Rep. Ap. 39. When, 
therefore, a perfon, who hath a right of entry into lands, 
determines to acquire that poireflion, which is wrongfully 
withheld by the prefent tenant, he makes (as by law he 
may) a formal entry on the premifes, and being fo in the 
poffeilion of the foil, he there, upon the land, feals and 
delivers a leafe for years to fome third perfon or lefiee; 
and, having thus given him entry, leaves him in poftef- 
fion of the premifes. This leffee is to ftay upon the ldnd, 
till the prior tenant, or lie who had the previous poftef- 
fion, enters thereon a-frefh and oufts him ; or till fome 
other perfon (either by accident or by agreement before¬ 
hand) comes upon the land, and turns him out, or ejects 
him. For this injury the leffee is entitled to his action 
of ejedlment againft the tenant; or his cafual ejector, 
whichever it was that oufted him, to recover back iris 
term tuid damages. But where this adlion is brought 
againft fuch a cafual ejedtor as is before mentioned, and 
not againft the very tenant in poffeftion, the court will 
not fuffer the tenant to lofe his poflelfion without an op= 
portunity to defend it. Wherefore it is a handing rule, 
that no plaintiff fhall proceed in ejedlnient to recover 
lands againft: a cafual ejedtor, without notice given to the 
tenant in pofleffion, (if any there be,) and making him a 
defendant ;f he pleafes. And, in order to maintain the 
adlion, the plaintiff muft, in cafe of any defence, make 
out four points before the court j viz. title,leafe, entry,’ 
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