Disseisin
idea · 2 works · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
disseisin · disseised · aut disseisiatur · dispossessed · disseisitus · forcible disseisin
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The wrongful dispossession of a person from their land or property, a central grievance addressed by Magna Carta's protective clauses and analysed at length in the passage.
Later versions of Magna Carta (beginning with that of 1217) are careful to define the objects to be protected from disseisin:
These words are followed in the text by a string of other verbs, each of which is introduced by “aut” (“aut disseisiatur,” etc.
by the care taken in the 25th Article of the Barons and in chapter 52 of the Charter to provide procedure for restoring “disseised” estates, and by the terms of writs issued by John after the treaty at Runnymede, for the immediate restoration of “lands, castles, and franchises from which we have caused any one to be disseised injuste et sine judicio.
The Genius of the Common Law
Legal doctrine concerning wrongful dispossession of land, invoked as part of the continuous protest against lawlessness.
Whether we look at the common law of disseisin or the statutes against forcible entry, we find the same continuous protest, expressing a real and arduous conflict with lawlessness.