disseize

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DISSEIZE, verb transitive [dis and seize.] In law, to dispossess wrongfully; to deprive of actual seizin or possession; followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold. A man may suppose himself disseized, when he is not so.
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