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Definition of Disseizes
1. disseize [v] - See also: disseize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disseizes
Literary usage of Disseizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Set-off, Recoupment, and Counter Claim by Thomas Whitney Waterman (1869)
"A. disseizes B. and sows grain, or makes repairs in the buildings. ... The lord
disseizes his tenant who brings an assize against him and recovers. ..."
2. Forms of Practice, Or, American Precedents in Personal and Real Actions by Benjamin Lynde Oliver (1851)
"It is said to be an unsettled question, whether, if A disseizes B, ... Suppose A
disseizes B, and then sells the land for $1000 to C, C occupies the land ..."
3. A Selection of Leading Cases on Various Branches of the Law: With Notes by John William Smith, Richard Henn Collins Collins, Robert George Arbuthnot (1889)
"He in remainder in tail disseizes tenant for life, and makes a feoffment, and
dies without issue, and the tenant for life dies ; he in reversion may enter ..."
4. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"If one enter on my land without claim of title, he disseizes me no further than
he occupies; but claiming a right, his seizin extends to all he claims a ..."
5. The British Drama: Comprehending the Best Plays in the English Language by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1804)
"John a Stiles—no—there are first, Fitz, Pere, and Ayle ; no, no, Ayle, Pere, and
Fitz— Ayle is seized in fee of Blackacre; John a Stiles disseizes the A vie ..."
6. A Treatise Upon Some of the General Principles of the Law: Whether of a by William Wait (1878)
"Where a person, by taking possession of mortgaged premises, disseizes the mortgagor,
he also disseizes the mortgagee, and, ..."
7. A Treatise on the Action of Ejectment and Concurrent Remedies for the by Martin L. Newell (1892)
"... who subsequently disseizes him can not set up the invalidity of his deed. ...
a title which is valid against a stranger who subsequently disseizes him. ..."
8. The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided by Isaac Grant Thompson, Irving Browne (1877)
"He thus acquires an actual seizin under a title which his grantor is estopped by
his deed to deny, and a stranger who subsequently disseizes him cannot set ..."
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