disseizin
disseisin BrE

In 1250, pleas of disseizin of tenements in the City of London were handed over to the mayor's court, and at times cases of this kind were brought before the ordinary justices in eyre or the hundred-court.

See (for example) Assize of novel disseisin )

Certainly some clauses show the popularity of new procedures, for example promising the frequent holding of assizes such as novel disseisin.

May 1393, Disseisin, Glos.

The most popular one became the assize of novel disseisin, which in Law French meant something close to the "assize of recent dispossession".

Several new processes had been introduced to English law under Henry II, including novel disseisin and mort d'ancestor.

Sutherland, Donald W. The Assize of Novel Disseisin.

In English law, the Assize of novel disseisin ("recent dispossession") was an action to recover lands of which the plaintiff had been disseised, or dispossessed.

The English writs and forms of action, such as novel disseisin, debt, and dower, operated, but with oversight from Caernarfon, rather than the distant Westminster.

May 1395 & Jan 1396, to take Assizes of Novel Disseisin, Glos., Som.

Others, the "petty" assizes known respectively as the assize of novel disseisin, of mort d'ancestor, and of darrein presentment gave more specific relief.

The Assize of Northampton is also the first official document to contain information on the possessory assizes of mort d'ancestor and novel disseisin.

In 1275-6 Gilbert de Stapleton arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him and others touching a tenement in Thorntoncolling', Yorkshire.

Rowling, M., 'New Evidence on the disseisin of the Pastons from Gresham', in Norfolk Archaeology, 40 (1989)

A much quicker and less dangerous method might be to use an assize of novel disseisin, or later to assert his right to the land indirectly through an action of ejectment.

In 1280-1 Laurence Duket arraigned an assize of novel disseisin again Devorguilla and others touching a hedge destroyed in Cotingham, Middlesex.

He had several run-ins with the law, in 1408 for 'illegal disseisin of land at Colyford, Devon' and in July 1405, for 'fornication with Alice Benet'.

Although the details of its exact origin are unclear, it became popular around 1250 and it may have arisen either out of the "Appeal of Felony" or disseisin or replevin.

The Statute of 1278 provided for several important legal amendments, including a modification of novel disseisin (one of the most popular forms of action for the recovery of land which had been seized illegally).

It was early provided that, in seeking to remove one who wrongfully entered another's land with force and arms, a person could allege disseisin (dispossession) and demand (and pay for) a writ of entry.

At these the jurors accused various officials, particularly those named in the complaint, of extortion, disseisin, forcible detention of goods and fabrication of warrants of arrest for the purpose of extorting money (42).

These events, if true, led to the "assize of novel disseisin", later called the "mixed action in ejectment", a procedure in which title could ultimately be determined, but which led instead to trial by jury.

The gage was unattractive for lenders because the gagor could easily eject the gagee using novel disseisin, and the gagee-merely seized ut de vadio "as of gage"-could not bring a freeholder's remedies to recover possession.

Swift methods were employed to deal with a variety of cases, for example concerning recent dispossession of land ('the assize of novel disseisin') and disputed inheritance ('the assize of mort d'ancestor - death of an ancestor).

The "Assize of novel disseisin" was a tribunal to recover estates that had been taken by someone else (who had "disseised" the claimant) and a "livery of seisin" would be a symbolic ceremony to deliver ownership of land from one person to another.

The first trailbaston commissions date back to 1305, when Edward I directed several teams of justices to visit each English county and seek presentments for felonies (homicide, theft, arson, and rape) and certain trespasses (premeditated assault, extortion, and violent disseisin).