Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To remove (a party) wrongly from real property that is lawfully possessed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In law, to dispossess wrongfully; deprive of actual seizin or possession: followed by of: as, to
disseize a tenant of his freehold. Seedisseizin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Law) To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by
of .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb law To
deprive ofseizin orpossession ; todispossess oroust wrongfully (one infreehold possession of land).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They disseize their neighbours of their real estates, which came to them by descent from their ancestors.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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When they only denied the fruit, he did not distrain upon them for rent, nor disseize them and dispossess them for non-payment; but when they killed his servants, and his Son, he determined to destroy them; and this was fulfilled when Jerusalem was laid waste, and the Jewish nation extirpated and made a desolation.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Ammonites, whom they must not disseize, nor so much as disturb in their possessions: Distress them not, nor contend with them, v. 9.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
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"They will want to know whether these strangers have the right to turn us out; and if they have not the right to disseize, whether we have not the right to resist.
What's Mine's Mine — Complete George MacDonald 1864
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"They will want to know whether these strangers have the right to turn us out; and if they have not the right to disseize, whether we have not the right to resist.
What's Mine's Mine — Volume 3 George MacDonald 1864
yarb commented on the word disseize
"...did she suppose at his age he'd be so insensible, or her own word 'irresponsible' dammit, as to disseize a perfectly decent boy, no matter how hulking, of a girl he-"
- W.M. Spackman, An Armful of Warm Girl
January 2, 2012