Definition of Disseisins

1. disseisin [n] - See also: disseisin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disseisins

dissection
dissection tubercle
dissections
dissector
dissectors
dissects
dissed
disseise
disseised
disseisee
disseisees
disseises
disseisin
disseising
disseisins (current term)
disseisor
disseisors
disseize
disseized
disseizee
disseizees
disseizes
disseizin
disseizing
disseizins
disseizor
disseizoress
disseizoresses
disseizors

Literary usage of Disseisins

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Britton: An English Translation and Notes by Francis Morgan Nichols (1901)
"And in favour of complainants it is ordained that disseisins may be pleaded by petty assises in the counties where the lands lie, in the absence as well as ..."

2. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary ...by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1853)
"And where our author first putteth his case of two estates by wrong, and after of twentie disseisins, all estate be wrong. 11 H! 4. ..."

3. An Introduction to Conveyancing, and the New Statutes Concerning Real by William Hayes (1840)
"Hence, the old law-writers are deeply conversant disseisins ... &c ., with disseisins, abatements, intrusions: names for wrongs why rare in . ..."

4. Forms of Practice: Or, American Precedents in Actions, Personal and Real by Benjamin Lynde Oliver (1828)
"The following cases will serve to illustrate the law of disseisins in relation to corporeal hereditaments. If a man enters into lands or tenements where his ..."

5. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1873)
"disseisins by election are those acts which are no ... The uniform language of the books which treat of disseisins by ..."

6. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books, with an Analysis of the Work by William Blackstone, Edward Christian, Joseph Chitty, John Eykyn Hovenden, Thomas Lee, Archer Ryland (1853)
"But all these disseisins, of hereditaments, incorporeal, are only so at the election and choice of the party injured ; if, for the sake of more easily ..."

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