redisseisin Law.
(riːdɪsˈsiːzɪn)
[a. AF. redisseisine (Britton): see re- and disseisin.]
Repeated disseisin (see quot. 1607).
| 1535 tr. Littleton's Nat. Brev. (1544) 127 b, Where a man is disseised,..and after y{supt} is disseysed by the same disseysour, he shall have this wryt of Redysseyson agaynste him. 1607 Cowell Interpr., Redisseisin is a disseisin made by him, that once before was found, and adiudged to haue disseised the same man of his lands, or tenements. For the which there lyeth a speciall writ, called a writ of redisseisin. 1670 in Phoenix (1721) I. 428 The Judgment in the Re-disseisin is also Revers'd. 1768 Blackstone Comm. III. x. 188. 1865 Nichols Britton II. 233 Where the plaintiff is tenant of the tenement which he lost..by his own intrusion, or by redisseisin. |