Desseised
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
pleading. This is a word with a technical meaning, which when inserted in an indictment for forcible entry and detainer has all the force of the words expelled or unlawfully, for the last is superfluous, and the first is implied in the word desseised.
8 T. R. 357; Cro. Jac. 32; vide 3 Yeates’s R. 49; S.C. 4 Dall. Rep. 212.