2. Noun. (legal) The act of depriving one of land or chattels. ¹
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Definition of Disseisin
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disseisin
Literary usage of Disseisin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"A disseisin is the wrongful putting out of him that is ... Actually taking
possession of land under claim or color of title is a disseisin. ..."
2. Select Cases and Other Authorities on the Law of Property by John Chipman Gray (1906)
"And warranty may be annexed to such an estate, 1 disseisin Rv ELECTION. An assise
of novel disseisin was an action for the recovery of the possession of ..."
3. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"disseisin A glance at the law books of the thirteenth century is offence.
sufficient to tell us that this is so. The necessity of keeping the peace is often ..."
4. Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of the Laws of England by John Henry Thomas, Sir Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Heneage Finch Nottingham, Edward Coke, Matthew Hale (1836)
"This action doth explain that which hath been said before. And 46E.3.6.
feoffment were made (quasi uno tempere); yet if the disseisin ..."
5. A Selection of Cases on the Law of Torts by James Barr Ames, Jeremiah Smith (1910)
"Likewise a disseisin takes place, not only if any one ejects the true owner when
present, or his agent, or his family, or does not admit him, or repels him ..."
6. Cases on the Law of Torts by Francis Hermann Bohlen (1915)
"And in which case, although he does not altogether expel (the owner), nevertheless
he inflicts upon him a disseisin, since he takes away from him altogether ..."
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