Note: Usurpation, in a peculiar sense, formerly denoted the absolute ouster and dispossession of the patron of a church, by a stranger presenting a clerk to a vacant benefice, who us thereupon admitted and instituted.
On the contrary, never did an aristocracy undergo dispossession with so much patience, or employ less force in the defense of its prerogatives, or even of its property.
Legal dispossession alone is able to bring the landed property of the peasant into the market.
Rigou well understood the defects of the law of dispossession when applied to small holdings, and the danger both to the Public Treasury and to land-owners of the minute parcelling out of the soil.
And unconditional surrender is the first step in the direction of an unconditional dispossession of the Imperial establishment and its war prophets,--depending primarily on the state of mind of the British people at the time.
With some gift for casuistry one may, at least conceivably, hold that the felt need of Imperial self-aggrandisement may become so urgent as to justify, or at least to condone, forcible dispossession of weaker nationalities.
Southern France, and for thedispossession of the native princes, who would not fully obey the decrees of the papacy, in favor of foreign conquerors who would put them into execution.
In 1788 an alliance was again formed between Russia and Austria, having for its object the dispossession of the Porte in the Principalities.
He had expected to find the Acadiens, after all the trials they had gone through in their dispossession of property and wanderings by sea and land, degenerated into a despoiled and poverty-stricken remnant of peasantry.
War with Fairyland* Eochy, however, would not accept defeat, and now ensues what I think is the earliest recorded war with Fairyland since the first dispossession of the Danaans.
Etain in Fairyland* The preliminary events of the cycle are transacted in the "Land of Youth," the mystic country of the People of Dana after their dispossession by the Children of Miled.
The dispossession of the dispossessor is, as it were, in this case the automatic product of historical reality in its material external form.
The condition attained by the dispossession of the dispossessor is here shown as the restoration of individual private property resting however on a basis of social property in the land and means of production.
The agreement of division and the violent dispossession of the heroine have disappeared.
To be sure, as in other instances, the dispossession of the woman has been obscured by other elements; yet the type is unmistakable, it seems to me.
Wherein the doctrine of Possession and Dispossession of Demoniakes out of the word of God, is particularly applyed unto Somers and the rest of the persons controuerted: together with the use we are to make of these workes of God.
Dispossession of one race by another was the common practice of the times, and in a moral point of view was little thought of.
First, a great work of destruction--the dispossession of the Canaanites.
The Replie of John Darrell, to the Answer of John Deacon, and John Walker concerning the doctrine of the Possession and Dispossession of Demoniakes .
A True Discourse concerning the certaine possession and dispossession of 7 persons in one familie in Lancashire, which also may serve as part of an Answere to a fayned and false Discoverie.
A Summarie Answere to al the Material Points in any of Master Darel his bookes, More especiallie to that one Booke of his, intituled, the Doctrine of the Possession and Dispossession of Demoniaks out of the word of God.
See also George More, A true Discourse concerning the certaine possession and dispossession of 7 persons in one familie in Lancashire .
It was also agreed to insert in the lease a clause permitting the lessee to sublet the house to some other tenant in case of arrest and subsequent dispossession proceedings.
If objection was made, he was to tell the agent that in case of dispossession proceedings, the tenant could be evicted and a new lease issued under a different name.
He placed full faith in a tale, current among the people of his day, of the "dispossession of the Devil out of many persons together in a room in Lancashire, at the prayer of some godly ministers.
The dispossession they had worked to the Pruyns, the Martins, the Pages and others was now being visited upon them.
They make it clear that a rapid process of the dispossession of the industrial working, the middle and the small farming classes has been going on unceasingly.
In the Irish tenant's mind dispossession was nine-tenths of the law.
In 1870, dispossession was made very costly to the landlord.
