DISSEISED

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DISSEISED pleading. This is a word with a technical meaning, which, when 
  inserted in an indictment for forcible entry and detainer, has all the force 
  of the words expelled or unlawfully, for the last is superfluous, and the 
  first is implied in the word disseised. 8 T. R. 357; Cro. Jac. 32; vide 3 
  Yeates' R. 39; S. C. 4 Dall. Rep. 212.