Disseisin

[L. Fr. disseisine, dissaisin; L. Lat. disseisina, disseysina, dissaisina.] Deprivation or putting out of seisin; a wrongful putting out of him that is actually seised of the freehold.

Co. Litt. 277 a. 3 Bl. Com. 169.

A species of injury by ouster or dispossession. Id. ibid.

3 Steph. Com. 483.

Litt. sect.

279. Roscoe's Real Act. 61.

See Seisin. Disseisin was originally an actual dispossession, but afterwards many acts were held to amount to disseisin, if the injured party chose to consider them as such; and this was called disseisin by election.

2 Crabb's Real Prop. 1063, 1064, § 2455. 4 Kent's Com. 482 — 490. 1 Burr. 60, 107, 108.

See Disseisina.

See Disseisina.