Disseise means to dispossess of the possession or occupancy of something, especially real property.
Disseise significa desposeer de la posesión u ocupación de algo, especialmente un bien inmueble.
| Front | disseise \dih-SEEZ\ |
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| Back | verb To put out of possession or occupancy; dispossess. ["Disseise," "seisin" ("the possession of land or chattels"), and "seize" are all 13th-century words derived from the Anglo-French word "seisir," meaning "to put in possession of." That's the original meaning of English "seize" as well. ("Seize" can also be spelled "seise" in that sense.) The Magna Carta (the great charter of liberties, originally written in Medieval Latin and signed in 1215) is perhaps the most frequently quoted use of the word "disseise": "No free man shall be ... disseised ... except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land."] "The complainant declared that he or she had been disseised -- usually physically and sometimes even violently deprived -- of land unjustly and without judgment of a court." |
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