torts. The privation of seisin. It takes the seisin or estate from one man and places it in another. It is an ouster of the rightful owner from the seisinor estate in the land, and the coinmencement of a new estate in the wrong doer. It may be by abatement, intrusion, discontinuance, or deforcement, as well as by disseisin, properly so called. Every dispossession is not a … [Read more...] about DISSEISIN
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DISTINCT
Unique. Clearly different from others. … [Read more...] about DISTINCT
DISSEISITRIX
A female disseisor; a disselsoress. Fleta, lib. 4, c 12, f 4. … [Read more...] about DISSEISITRIX
DISTINCTE ET APERTE
In old English practice. Distinctly and openly. Formal words in writs of error, referring to the return required to be made td them. Reg. Orig. 17. Distinguenda sunt tempore. The time is to 'be considered. 1 Coke, 16a; Bloss y. Tobey, 2 Pick. (Mass.) 327; Owens v. Missionary Society; 14 N. Y. 380, 393, 67 Am. Dec. 160. Distingueuda 9nnt tempore; aliud est faeere, aliud … [Read more...] about DISTINCTE ET APERTE
DISSEISOR
torts. One who puts another out of the possession of his lands wrongfully. … [Read more...] about DISSEISOR