disseisin
disseizin
Word Origin for disseisin
C14: from Old French dessaisine; see dis- 1, seisin
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Examples from the Web for disseisin
Historical Examples of disseisin
For the lease could not, and the reversion would not be likely to, go by disseisin.
The Common LawOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The question of "disseisin, or not," was a question of law, as well as fact.
An Essay on the Trial by JuryLysander Spooner
Judgment: let Matilda have her seisin and let Clement be in mercy for disseisin.
Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed.S. A. Reilly
Of course if a right had already been acquired before the disseisin different considerations would apply.
The Common LawOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Disseisin, or forcible dispossession of freeholds, makes one of the most considerable articles in our law-books.