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Webster 1913 Edition


Disseize

Dis-seize′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Disseized
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Disseizing
.]
[Pref.
dis-
+
seize
: cf. F.
dessaisir
.]
(Law)
To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); – followed by of;
as, to
disseize
a tenant of his freehold
.
[Written also
disseise
.]
Which savage beasts strive as eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to
disseize
them thereof.
Holland.

Webster 1828 Edition


Disseize

DISSEIZE

,
Verb.
T.
[dis and seize.] In law, to dispossess wrongfully; to deprive of actual seizin or possession; followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold.
A man may suppose himself disseized, when he is not so.

Definition 2024


disseize

disseize

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Verb

disseize (third-person singular simple present disseizes, present participle disseizing, simple past and past participle disseized)

  1. (law) To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land).
    to disseize a tenant of his freehold
    Which savage beasts strive as eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize them thereof. Holland.