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English
Etymology
From Middle English disseisen, from Anglo-Norman disseisine; equivalent to dis- + seizin.
Pronunciation
Noun
disseizin (countable and uncountable, plural disseizins)
- (law) The act of disseizing; an act of unlawful dispossessing, especially of someone's lands.
1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC:Disseizin of things corporeal , as of houses , lands , & c . , must be by entry and actual dispossession of the freehold
- (figuratively) Dispossession.
1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:Why should the disseizin of his soul have seemed shameful to him?
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