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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of disseize.

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  • The concept of due process dates back to 1215 A.D. and the Magna Carta, "No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or disseized or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land."

    Malcolm Friedberg: Fred: You Had It Right The First Time 2008

  • No person ought to be taken, imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold, liberties, or privileges, or outlawed or exiled, or in any manner deprived of his life, liberty, or property but by the law of the land.

    The History of Escheats Blackwell Pierce 1955

  • "No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseized, or outlawed, or banished, or any ways destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor will we send upon him, unless by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land."

    The Making of Arguments J. H. Gardiner

  • No person ought to be taken, imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold, liberties or privileges, or outlawed or exiled, or in any manner deprived of his life, liberty or property, but by the law of the land.

    A Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission for the Use of Members of the General Assembly Session 1913 Robert Digges Wimberly 1913

  • Henceforth we command that no man be disseized of any seisin that he holds, without cognisance of cause, or special order from ourselves; and that our people be not oppressed with new exactions of tallages and fresh customs; nor shall a muster be ordered in order to get the people's money, nor shall they be called out for military service without sufficient cause.

    The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville 1906

  • Lord Coke citing and commenting on the celebrated twenty-ninth chapter of Magna Charta, says: “No man shall be disseized, &c., unless it be by the lawful judgment, that is, verdict of equals, or by the law of the land, that is (to speak it once for all), by the due course and process of law.”

    Select Speeches of Daniel Webster Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 1903

  • The parties agreed that henceforth no baron or free tenant should be disseized of land or goods by the king's justices or servants without a trial according to the customs and assizes of the land, or by the direct orders of the king.

    The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) George Burton Adams 1888

  • The 8th section declares "that no freeman shall be imprisoned or disseized of his freehold," etc., but by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

  • If we may forcibly defend a natural right, we may employ force to regain natural rights of which we have been disseized.

    Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 George S. Boutwell 1861

  • Lord Coke citing and commenting on the celebrated twenty-ninth chapter of Magna Charta, says: "No man shall be disseized, &c., unless it be by the lawful judgment, that is, verdict of equals, or by the law of the land, that is (to speak it once for all), by the due course and process of law."

    Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845 Daniel Webster 1817

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