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Webster 1913 Edition
Disseizin
Dis-sei′zin
,Noun.
[OF.
dessaisine
.] (Law)
The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold.
[Written also
disseisin
.] Blackstone.
Webster 1828 Edition
Disseizin
DISSEIZIN
,Noun.
Definition 2024
disseizin
disseizin
English
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Noun
disseizin (plural disseizins)
- (law) The act of disseizing; an act of unlawful dispossessing, especially of someone's lands.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Blackstone to this entry?)
- (figuratively) Dispossession.
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1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
- Why should the disseizin of his soul have seemed shameful to him?
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1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson: