Seduction

The offence of a Stranger, claiming a right to the man who abuses the simplicity and land, which is called an abatement, confidence of a woman to obtain by (q- v-) The actual scisin of an esfalse promises what she ought not to tate may be lost by the forcible engrant. The woman being particeps try of a stranger who thereby ousts criminis, has no remedy for the mere or dispossesses the owner: this act seduction, nor is there, to the discre- is called a disseisin, (q. v.) Accorddit of the law, a direct remedy in ing to Lord Mansfield, the various ‘have left us but the name of feoffment, seisin, tenure, and freeholder, without any precise knowledge of ‘the thing originally signified by these sounds.”

Vide 1 Inst. 31; 19 Vin. Ab. 306; Dane’s Abr. c. 104, a. 3; 4 Kent, Com. 2, 381; Cruise’s Dig. t. 1, § 23; Toull. Dr. Civ. Fr. liv. 3, t. 1, c. 1, n. 80; Poth. Traité des Fiefs, part 1, c. 2.