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Noun: constructive eviction
  1. (law) action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved
    - eviction

Derived forms: constructive evictions

Type of: coercion, compulsion

Encyclopedia: Constructive eviction