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Definition of Disseizins
1. disseizin [n] - See also: disseizin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disseizins
Literary usage of Disseizins
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)
"... the tenants' disseizins. Now in a writ of right the demandant CH. ... and he
does not Art. 4. even allege disseizins made by the tenants ; he merely ..."
2. Forms of Practice, Or, American Precedents in Personal and Real Actions by Benjamin Lynde Oliver (1851)
"This is called a Writ of Entry ad communem legem, and may be in the per, per and
cui, and post. FNB 477. On disseizins. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Action of Ejectment and Concurrent Remedies for the by Martin L. Newell (1892)
"Story, J., said: " There is a distinction between disseizins which are in spite
of the owner, and disseizins at his election. But the distinction often ..."
4. Pacific Coast Law Journal: Containing All the Decisions of the Supreme Court by California Supreme Court (1883)
"The last class of disseizins above mentioned need not be further noticed. Now,
the possession of one tenant-in-common is the possession of his co-tenant. ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee by Thomas Harvey Coldwell, Tennessee Supreme Court (1867)
"Their several consecutive possessions cannot be tacked, so as to make a continuity
of disseizins of sufficient length of time to bar the true owners of ..."
6. Leading Cases on the Law of Torts Determined by the Courts of America and by Melville Madison Bigelow (1875)
"... or the pond of any mill be destroyed, to the injury of any person's freehold,
and such offence has been committed within the time 1 disseizins were ..."
7. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1899)
"It may, however, be remarked, that const!uctive or elective disseizins, being of
a technical nature, were more likely to produce cases in the Year-books ..."
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