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  • noun Alternative form of disseizee.

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Examples

  • A disseisor was no more bound by the confidence reposed in his disseisee, than he was entitled to vouch his disseisee's warrantor.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

  • If land had even been systematically treated as capable of acquiring rights, the time of a disseisee might have been added to that Of the wrongful occupant, on the ground that the land, and not this or that individual, was gaining the easement, and that long association between the enjoyment of the privilege and the land was sufficient, which has never been the law.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

  • One who dispossesses another of land cannot add the time during which his disseisee has used a way to the period of his own use, while one who purchased can.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

  • A descent is thereby cast, which takes away the entry of the disseisee; but the alienatimi beisg made by an infant, is voidable by his entry, and if the descent happens daring his infancy, it does not aifect his right of entry.

    The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not ... 1812

  • In explaining the succession which is worked out between buyer and seller for the purpose of creating a prescriptive right, such as a right of way over neighboring land to the land bought and sold, it was shown that one who, instead of purchasing the land, had wrongfully possessed himself of it by force, would not be treated as a successor, and would get no benefit from the previous use of the way by his disseisee.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

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