Example Sentences

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Of freeholds only can a seizin be had, or a disseizin done.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

Why should the disseizin of his soul have seemed shameful to him?

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

Nothing short of a direct prohibition can work a disseizin of rights that are fundamental.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

The United States, by this disseizin of the property of the Confederate States, are enabled, in the first months of the war, to blockade all the ports of the latter States.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael