disseizin
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English disseisen, from Anglo-Norman disseisine; equivalent to dis- + seizin.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]disseizin (countable and uncountable, plural disseizins)
- (law) The act of disseizing; an act of unlawful dispossessing, especially of someone's lands.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- Disseizin of things corporeal , as of houses , lands , & c . , must be by entry and actual dispossession of the freehold
- (figuratively) Dispossession.
- 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
- Why should the disseizin of his soul have seemed shameful to him?
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