Noun: constructive eviction
- (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
"The tenant claimed constructive eviction due to the landlord's failure to repair a leaking roof";
- eviction
Derived forms: constructive evictions
Type of: coercion, compulsion
Encyclopedia: Constructive eviction