In this action, known as an action of disseisin or ejectment, both possession of the land and damages may be recovered.
In the United States, the old English action of ejectment was adopted to a very limited extent, and where it was so adopted has often been superseded, as in Connecticut, by a single action for all cases of ouster, disseisin or ejectment.
When it pleased the lord afterwards to eject the tenant, this latter actually brought an assize of novel disseisin and recovered possession.
We even find in the Mirror that the villains ought to have the assise of novel disseisin as a remedy in case of dispossession.
He can give away[81] or otherwise alienate land or chattels, he has the assize of novel disseisin to defend the land, and leaves the assize of mort d'ancestor to his heirs.
It is an assize of noveldisseisin brought by a certain William the son of Henry against his lord Bartholomew the son of Eustace.
These included issues of disseisin [ejectment] of a person's free tenement or of his common of pasture which belonged to his freehold.
Anyone disseising another whereby he also robs him or uses force and arms in the disseisin shall be imprisoned and fined.
Sir Godfrey Disseisin over at Wantley had let Richard Lion Heart depart for the Holy Wars without him.
Rent was treated in early law as a real right, of which a disseisin was possible, and for which a possessory action could be brought.
Of course if a right had already been acquired before the disseisindifferent considerations would apply.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disseisin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dispossession; eviction; foreclosure
