Definition of "disseize" [dis•seize]

• Law To dispossess unlawfully of real property; oust. (verb-transitive)

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• "They disseize their neighbours of their real estates, which came to them by descent from their ancestors."
• "When they only denied the fruit, he did not distrain upon them for rent, nor disseize them and dispossess them for non-payment; but when they killed his servants, and his Son, he determined to destroy them; and this was fulfilled when Jerusalem was laid waste, and the Jewish nation extirpated and made a desolation."
• "Ammonites, whom they must not disseize, nor so much as disturb in their possessions: Distress them not, nor contend with them, v. 9."