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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A disseisor would get a new and different fee, and would not have the estate of which the rent was part.
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
This instance, therefore, comes very near that of a disseisor.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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 Henry Hallam
So a disseisor, abator, intruder, or the lord by escheat, &c., shall have them as things annexed to the land.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
