disseise
verb (used with object)
to deprive (a person) of seizin, or of the possession, of a freehold interest in land, especially wrongfully or by force; oust.
disseisor
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a word derived from
disseise.
Example Sentences
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If the right claimed is one of those which are regarded as incident to land, as explained in the following Lecture, the disseisor will have it.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
This instance, therefore, comes very near that of a disseisor.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
A disseisor was no more bound by the confidence reposed in his disseisee, than he was entitled to vouch his disseisee's warrantor.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
If it went with the land in one case, even into the hands of a disseisor, it must have gone with it in the other.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
It would be rather narrow to give a disseisor one remedy, and deny him another, where the right was one, and the same words made both the grant and the covenant.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
