expulsion
    n 1: the act of forcing out someone or something; "the ejection
         of troublemakers by the police"; "the child's expulsion
         from school" [syn: ejection, exclusion, expulsion,
         riddance]
    2: squeezing out by applying pressure; "an unexpected extrusion
       of toothpaste from the bottom of the tube"; "the expulsion of
       pus from the pimple" [syn: extrusion, expulsion]
    3: the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting [syn:
       expulsion, projection, ejection, forcing out]

Expulsion \Ex*pul"sion\, n. [L. expulsio, fr. expellere: cf. F.
   expulsion. See Expel.]
   1. The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary
      removal from membership, association, etc.
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            The expulsion of the Tarquins.        --Shak.
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   2. The state of being expelled or driven out.
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EXPULSION. The act of depriving a member of a body politic, corporate, or of 
a society, of his right of membership therein, by the vote of such body or 
society, for some violation of hi's. duties as such, or for some offence 
which renders him unworthy of longer remaining a member of the same. 
     2. By the Constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 5, Sec. 2, each 
house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for 
disorderly behaviour, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds' expel a 
member. In the case of John Smith, a senator from Ohio, who was expelled 
from the senate in 1807, the committee made a report which embraces the 
following points: 
     3.-1. That the senate may expel a member for a high misdemeanor, such 
as a conspiracy to commit treason. Its authority is not confined to an act 
done in its presence. 
     4.-2. That a previous conviction is, not requisite, in order to 
authorize the senate to expel a member from their body, for a high: offence 
against the United States. 
     5.-3. That although a bill of indictment against a party for treason 
and misdemeanor has been abandoned, because a previous indictment against 
the principal party had terminated in an acquittal, owing to the 
inadmissibility of the evidence upon that indictment, yet the senate may 
examine the evidence for themselves, and if it be sufficient to satisfy 
their. minds that the party is guilty of a high misdemeanor it is a 
sufficient ground of expulsion. 
     6.-4. That the 6th and 6th articles of the amendments of the 
Constitution of the United States, containing the general rights and 
privileges of the citizen, as to criminal prosecutions, refer only to 
prosecutions at law, and do not affect the jurisdiction of the senate as to 
expulsion. 
     7.-5. That before a committee of the senate, appointed to report an 
opinion relative to the honor and privileges of the senate, and the facts 
respecting the conduct of the member implicated, such member is not entitled 
to be heard in his defence by counsel, to have compulsory process for 
witnesses, and to be confronted with his accusers. It is before the senate 
that the member charged is entitled to be heard. 
     8.-6. In determining on expulsion, the senate is not bound by the 
forms of judicial proceedings, or the rules of judicial evidence; nor, it 
seems, is the same degree of proof essential which is required to convict of 
a crime. The power of expulsion must, in its nature, be discretionary, and 
its exercise of a more summary character. 1 Hall's Law Journ. 459, 465. 
     9. Corporations have the right of expulsion in certain cases, as such 
power is necessary to the good order and government of corporate bodies; and 
the cases in which the inherent power may be exercised are of three kinds. 
1. When an offence is committed which has no immediate relation to a 
member's corporate duty, but is of so infamous a nature as renders him unfit 
for the, society of honest men; such as the offences of perjury, forgery, 
and the like. But before an expulsion is made for a cause of this kind, it 
is necessary that there should be a previous conviction by a jury, according 
to the law of the land. 2. When the offence is against his duty as a 
corporator, in which case he may be expelled on trial and conviction before 
the corporation. 3. The third is of a mixed nature, against the member's 
duty. as a corporator, and also indictable by the law of the land. 2 
Binn.448. See, also, 2 Burr., 536. 
    10. Members of what are called joint stock incorporated companies, or 
indeed members of any corporation owning property, cannot, without express 
authority in the charter, be expelled, and thus deprived of their interest 
in the general fund. Ang. & Ames on Corp. 238. See; generally, Ang. & Ames 
on Corp. ch. 11; Willcock, on Mun. Cor. 270; 1 Co. 99; 2 Bing. 293.; 5 Day 
329; Sty. 478; 6 Conn. R. 532; 6 Serg. & Rawle, 469; 5 Binn. 486.