DISSEISIN

disseisin (dis-see-zin), n. The act of wrongfully depriving someone of the freehold possession

of  property; DISPOSSESSION. — Also spelled  disseizin. [Cases: Property    10. C.J.S. Property

§§ 27–31, 33.]

disseisin by election.A legal fiction by which a property owner is allowed to claim that he or

she  has  been  disseised,  regardless  of  whether  this  is  actually  true,  in  order  to  have  a  remedy

against an adverse claimant.

equitable  disseisin.The  wrongful  deprivation  of  the  equitable  ownership,  possession,  or  the

fruits of ownership or possession.

fresh disseisin.The right at common law of a person disseised of land to forcefully eject the

disseisor  from  the  land  without  resort  to  law,  as  long  as  the  ejection  occurred  soon  after  the

disseisin. [Blacks Law 8th]