Coke argues that villeins are included in the 29th article of Magna Charta: "No freeman shall be disseisednor imprisoned.
If a man was disseised of his land, he might enter upon the disseisor and reinstate himself without course of law.
The assize comes to recognise if Thomas de Sumerdeby and many others disseised Roger Gladewine of his free tenement in Spitelgate after etc.
But because it is acknowledged that the wood was thus partitioned among the sharers, it is decided that the aforesaid Elias has not disseised him, and so Elias is dismissed sine die and Wymar is in mercy.
The assize comes to recognise if Bartholomew son of Eustace unjustly and without a judgment disseised William son of Henry of his free tenement in Pilton after the last, etc.
An assize [now a judicial body] of recognition viewed the land in question and answered these questions of fact: 1) Was the plaintiff disseised of the freeholdin question, unjustly and without judgment?
No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in anyway destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
I find no note of his having been disseised again, but I should think he must have been, as this paper is certainly two years later.
I had traversed the plea in the inquisition that I had disseised Sir Hue Fastolf; but they put it now that I had only a joint interest in the manor.
The king said nothing, but Lanfranc replied, “The king has taken away no part of your bishopric, nor has any other man at his command, nor have you seen his writ disseising you or commanding you to be disseised of your bishopric.
Thus we were disseised by the judgment of the court, after much trouble and many charges expended, saving nevertheless our ancient fee-farm rents payable annually.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disseised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
