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In what case this right of entry was taken away, or tolled, as it was expressed, by the death or alienation of the disseisor, is a subject extensive enough to occupy two chapters of Littleton.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

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 Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The writ against a disseisor was for "so much land and its appurtenances," /2/ which must mean that he who had the land even wrongfully had the appurtenances.

From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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 Holmes, Oliver Wendell

This instance, therefore, comes very near that of a disseisor.

From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell