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ejectment Originally the action of ejectment was a remedy applicable to a leaseholder wrongfully dispossessed, but owing to the combrousness of the old real actions for trying the right to the freehold it was extended to freeholds by means of legal fictions. There was an imaginary lease by the person by the person claiming the freehold to an imaginary John Doe who was assumed to be ejected by an imaginary Richard Roe (the casual ejector). The claimant, so substantiate the lease, endeavoured to prove his title and the person in possession was allowed to defend on admitting the fiction, and thus the freehold title was put in issue. |