Forcible Entry and Detainer is a summary proceeding to recover possession of land that is instituted by one who has been wrongfully ousted from, or deprived of, possession. It alludes to two separate misdeeds. The forcible intrusion into another person’s peaceable possession constitutes one type of infraction. The second type entails the initiation of legal proceedings by the rightful owner against a squatter without title or a tenant who declines to depart.

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