Advertisement - Continue reading below

Definition of "disseisin" [disseisin]

  • Variant of disseizin. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "disseisin" in a sentence
  • "Novel disseisin, in traditional analysis, was only a possessory protection of property rights, not connected with major political events."
  • "Judgment: let Matilda have her seisin and let Clement be in mercy for disseisin."
  • "Since it was thought thus that novel disseisin predated mort d'ancestor, novel disseisin appeared as a preliminary undermining of feudal power by protecting knightly possession of their property rights, preparatory to the introduction of mort d'ancestor and the possessory protection of inheritance rights."