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disseisin

disseisin

English

Noun

disseisin (plural disseisins)

  1. (law) The act of disseising.
  2. (law) The act of depriving one of land or chattels.
    The United States cannot acquire jurisdiction tortiously or by disseisin of the state, or by occupancy with merely the tacit consent of the state.