verb
- unlawfully depriving someone of possession of real property
Usage: legal; archaic
Examples
- The court found evidence of disseizing the rightful landowner.
- Medieval lords were often accused of disseizing peasants from their holdings.
- The legal action sought remedy for disseizing the plaintiff of his estate.
- Historical records show instances of nobles disseizing church lands.
- The statute prohibited disseizing tenants without proper legal process.