retaliatory eviction

English Thesaurus

1. an eviction in reprisal for the tenant's good-faith complaints against the landlord; illegal in many states (noun.act)

hypernym	:	dispossession, eviction, legal ouster,
definition	:	the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law (noun.act)

domain category	:	jurisprudence, law,
definition	:	the collection of rules imposed by authority (noun.group)