disseisin

disseizin

noun

the act of disseising or state of being disseised

Word Origin

C14: from Old French dessaisine; see dis- 1, seisin

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Examples from the Web for disseisin

Historical Examples

For the lease could not, and the reversion would not be likely to, go by disseisin.
The Common Law
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The question of "disseisin, or not," was a question of law, as well as fact.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Lysander 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 Law
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Disseisin, or forcible dispossession of freeholds, makes one of the most considerable articles in our law-books.
View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 (of 3)
Henry Hallam

disseisin

disseizin

Word Origin

Examples from the Web for disseisin

Historical Examples

For the lease could not, and the reversion would not be likely to, go by disseisin.

The question of "disseisin, or not," was a question of law, as well as fact.

Judgment: let Matilda have her seisin and let Clement be in mercy for disseisin.

Of course if a right had already been acquired before the disseisin different considerations would apply.

Disseisin, or forcible dispossession of freeholds, makes one of the most considerable articles in our law-books.