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  • noun law The act of disseising.
  • noun law The act of depriving one of land or chattels.

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Examples

  • Novel disseisin, in traditional analysis, was only a possessory protection of property rights, not connected with major political events.

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  • In an assize of novel disseisin brought by one Richard and Roburga his wife against one W.G., it was found by verdict that one H.G. and J. his wife as of the right of J. had been seised etc.

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  • Judgment: let Matilda have her seisin and let Clement be in mercy for disseisin.

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  • Since it was thought thus that novel disseisin predated mort d'ancestor, novel disseisin appeared as a preliminary undermining of feudal power by protecting knightly possession of their property rights, preparatory to the introduction of mort d'ancestor and the possessory protection of inheritance rights.

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  • Novel disseisin, in traditional analysis, was only a possessory protection of property rights, not connected with major political events.

    Amanda is on Men’s Rights Radio Today! 2005

  • Sixteen acts of novel disseisin were proved against Falkes de Bréauté.

    The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892

  • Comparative peace having been restored, and the judicial bench purged of feudal partisans, private persons ventured to complain of outrageous acts of "novel disseisin", or unlawful appropriation of men's lands.

    The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892

  • Of course if a right had already been acquired before the disseisin different considerations would apply.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

  • /1/So, throughout the whole course of the canon law and in the early law of England, rents were regarded as so far a part of the realty as to be capable of possession and disseisin, and they could be recovered like land by all assize.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

  • /1/No passage has met my eye in which Bracton expressly decides that an easement goes with the dominant estate upon a disseisin, but what he says leaves little doubt that he followed the Roman law in this as in other things.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

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