AMOTION

amotion. 1. A turning out, as the eviction of a tenant or the removal of a person from office.

[Cases:  Landlord  and  Tenant    275;  Officers  and  Public  Employees    70.  C.J.S.  Landlord  and

Tenant  §§  716–718,  724; Officers and  Public  Employees§  175.]  2.  The  common-law  procedure

available  to  shareholders  to  remove  a  corporate  director  for  cause.  [Cases:  Corporations    294.

C.J.S. Corporations §§ 454–457.]

“The  cases  do  not  distinguish  clearly  between  disfranchisement  and  amotion.  The  former

applies to members, and the latter only to officers; and if an officer be removed for good cause, he

may still continue to be a member of the corporation. Disfranchisement is the greater power, and

more formidable in its application; and in joint stock or moneyed corporations no stockholder can

be disfranchised, and thereby deprived of his property or interest in the general fund, by any act of

the  corporation,  without  at  least  an  express  authority  for  that  purpose.”  2  James  Kent,

Commentaries on American Law *298 (George Comstock ed., 11th ed. 1866).

3. The wrongful moving or carrying away of another’s personal property. [Blacks Law 8th]