See Also: disseisin(dictionary)
NOVEL DISSEISIN(law)
NUL DISSEISIN, pleading(law)
POST DISSEISIN, Eng(law)

disseisin (iou)



disseisin noun. Also disseizin. LME.
[Anglo-Norman disseisine, Old French dessaisine, formed as DIS- 2, SEISIN.]
Law (now Hist.). The act or fact of disseising; privation of seisin; esp. the wrongful appropriation of the lands or (formerly) the goods of another. LME.
novel disseisin, new disseisin, fresh disseisin disseisin of recent date.
gen. Dispossession. arch. L16.
M. Beerbohm Why should the disseizin of his soul have seemed shameful to him?..He was in love.