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Definition of Disseized
1. disseize [v] - See also: disseize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disseized
Literary usage of Disseized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"... lill this seizin and possession be removed; as if the king's tenant is disseized
and dies without heirs; or if an alien born, or the king's villain, ..."
2. Cotenancy and Partition: A Treatise on the Law of Co-ownership as it Exists by Abraham Clark Freeman (1886)
"Only Cotenants not disseized, $ 447. Exception as to Personal Property, $ 448.
... States permitting disseized Cotenant to apply, $ 450. ..."
3. Forms of Practice, Or, American Precedents in Personal and Real Actions by Benjamin Lynde Oliver (1851)
"READ. into which the said A [defendant] hath not entry, but by D, to whom E
demised the same, who thereof unjustly disseized the said F [plaintiff;] and ..."
4. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1899)
"In quite a number of states statutes have been enacted which have enlarged the
rights of a disseized tenant and enable him in one suit to have his title and ..."
5. Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Common Law and Admiralty in the by Theron Metcalf, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins, George Ticknor Curtis (1863)
"Where a person disseized had only a right of entry, and no actual seizin, a
descent cast, and the lapse of five years, will not toll his right of entry. ..."
6. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon. Henry Flood, M.P by Flood, Warden (1838)
"Intended motion of Mr. Flood in return for an act of renunciation—Mr. Serjeant
Coppinger, an old and valuable servant, disseized of his office—Mr. Martin's ..."
7. The History of the Ancient Town and Borough of Newbury in the County of Berks by Walter MONEY (1887)
"The Countess of Perche disseized of the Manor. —The Manor of Newbury granted to
Geoffrey Fitz-Roy, natural son of King John.—The Manor of Newbury given to ..."
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