Disseisin

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disseizin \Dis*sei"zin\, n. [OF. dessaisine.] (Law)
     The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster
     of a person actually seized of the freehold. [Written also
     {disseisin}.] --Blackstone.
     [1913 Webster]



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

  DISSEISIN, torts. The privation of seisin. It takes the seisin or estate 
  from one man and places it in another. It is an ouster of the rightful owner 
  from the seisin or estate in the land, and the commencement of a new estate 
  in the wrong doer. It may be by abatement, intrusion, discontinuance, or 
  deforcement, as well as by disseisin, properly so called. Every 
  dispossession is not a disseisin. A disseisin, properly so called, requires 
  an ouster of the freehold. A disseisin at election is not a disseisin in 
  fact; 2 Prest. Abs. tit. 279, et seq.; but by admission only of the injured 
  party, for the purpose of trying his right in a real action. Co. Litt. 277; 
  3 Greenl. 316; 4 N. H. Rep. 371; 5 Cowen, 371; 6 John. 197; 2 Fairf. 309, 2 
  Greenl. 242; 5 Pet. 402; 6 Pick. 172. 
       2. Disseisin may be effected either in corporeal inheritances, or 
  incorporeal. Disseisin of things corporeal, as of houses, lands, &c., must 
  be by entry and actual dispossession of the freehold; as if a man enters, by 
  force or fraud, into the house of another, and turns, or at least, keeps him 
  or his servants out of possession. Disseisin of incorporeal hereditaments 
  cannot be an actual dispossession, for the subject itself is neither capable 
  of actual bodily possession nor dispossession. 3 B1. Com. 169, 170. See 15 
  Mass. 495 6 John. R. 197; 2 Watts, 23; 6 Pick. 172 1 Verm. 155; 11 Pet. R. 
  41; 10 Pet. R. 414; 14 Pick. 374; 1 Dana's R. 279; 2 Fairf. 408; 11 Pick. 
  193; 8 Pick. 172; 8 Vin. Ab. 79; 1 Swift's Dig. 504; 1 Cruise, *65; Arch. 
  Civ. Pl. 12; Bac. Ab. h.t.; 2 Supp. to Ves. Jr. 343; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.;
  1 Chit. Pr. 374, note (r.)