noun
- Plural of disseizee; persons who have been wrongfully dispossessed of land or property.
Usage: archaic; legal/historical; chiefly British law
Examples
- The disseizees filed a petition to recover their ancestral estates.
- Medieval law provided remedies for disseizees who had lost their lands unlawfully.
- The court recognized the disseizees' claims to the disputed property.
- Disseizees could seek restitution through the writ of replevin in old English law.