Novel Disseisin
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
See "Assize of Novel Disseisin."
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
The name of an old remedy which was given for a new or recent disseisin. When a tenant in fee-simple, fee-tail, or for term of life, was put out and disseised of his lands or tenements, rents, and the like, he might sue out a writ of assize or novel disseisin; and if, upon trial, he could prove his title and his actual seisin, and the disseisin by the present tenant, he was entitled to have judgment to recover his seisin and damages for the injury sustained; 3 Bla. Com. 187. Now obsolete. NOVELLA: LE0NIS. The ordinances of the Emperor Leo, which were made from the year 887 till the year 893, are so called. These novels changed many rules of the Jusinally In Greek, and afterwards, in 1560, translated into Latin by Agikeus.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
[L. Lat. ceriificatio assises wyvm disseisinaiJ] In old English practice.* A writ formerly granted for the re-exammation or review of a matter passed by assise before any justices, where some point of the assise had been overlooked, or not sufficiently examined. Beg, Orig, 200. CowelL Btount.