Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Removal; ejection; ejectment from possession or office, as of an officer of a corporation.
- noun Motion away from; a moving away; removal.
- noun In law: An unlawful taking of chattels.
- noun The act of turning out an owner of an estate in land before the termination of his estate.
- noun In corporations, removal of an official of a corporation before the expiration of the term for which he was appointed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Removal; ousting; especially, the removal of a corporate officer from his office.
- noun Deprivation of possession.
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- noun
removal ;ousting , especially, of acorporate officer from office - noun
deprivation ofpossession
Etymologies
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Examples
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Another possibility is amotion for stay pending an appeal.
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No mum has the rod to pud a stub to the lurch of amotion.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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That a man may, through infirmity, fall into some such sin as for it to be amoved from a church society (that amotion being an ordinance of Christ for his recovery from that sin), I know not that it can be reasonably questioned.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966
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Office of the City of Montreal, of the said notice of such election or amotion, shall be final and conclusive, unless the same by any order or orders to be by Us, Our Heirs or Successors made in Our or Their Privy
McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 Cyrus MacMillan 1916
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Post Office of the said City of Montreal; that every such election or amotion shall be subject to the review of Our said Visitor, whose determination thereon being signified in writing to the said Governors within sixty days after such delivery as aforesaid at the said Post
McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 Cyrus MacMillan 1916
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Council shall be altered, revoked or disallowed as hereinafter is provided; that during the said last-mentioned period of sixty days the said election or amotion, as the case may be, shall have no force or effect; and that failing such signification within the said last-mentioned period, such election or amotion shall be and be held and taken to be by him approved and confirmed;
McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 Cyrus MacMillan 1916
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The order of amotion, which was made on the 17th of June, 1843, was however reversed by the Imperial
The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion John Charles Dent 1864
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The Council had fully made up their minds on the 26th, and the notification was despatched accordingly, though the order of amotion was not actually ready for signature until the day following.
The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion John Charles Dent 1864
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As for Judge Willis himself, he determined to proceed at once to England to present his side or his case, in the form of an appeal from the order of amotion, at the
The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion John Charles Dent 1864
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From an _obiter dictum_ of one of the judges in the case it would appear that the order of amotion from the bench of this Province was finally set aside on technical grounds, owing to the appellant's not having been heard in Canada.
The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion John Charles Dent 1864
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