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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

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Noun.
The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing of a person of his lands, tenements, or incorporeal hereditaments; a deprivation of actual seizin.

Definition 2024


disseizin

disseizin

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Noun

disseizin (plural disseizins)

  1. (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?)
  2. (figuratively) Dispossession.
    • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
      Why should the disseizin of his soul have seemed shameful to him?

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