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to disseise

to disseise

9.9
To take someone's land or property away illegally
  • verb
  • /dɪˈsiːz/
  • Archaic
translation icon : desposeer
  • Article 39 provided that "no free man shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or outlawed or exiled or in any way ruined, nor will we go or send against him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land."

Examples

  • The new regulations ensure that no individual can be disseised of their property without due process.

  • In the historical document, it was stated that a person should not be disseised of their holdings without legal justification.

  • During the conflict, many families were disseised of their lands by the invading forces.

Synonyms

to strip
vsto disseise
  • Formal
48 5.1

Take away someone's possessions, rights, or honours

focuses more on unlawful seizure of land rather than official removal
to dispossess
vsto disseise
11 8.4

To take away someone's land or home so they no longer own it

is specifically about unlawful or forceful removal of land rights
to despoil
vsto disseise
2 9.3

Steal valuable things and damage a place or person, often by force

targets loss of land ownership through unlawful ousting rather than theft of goods
to violate
vsto disseise
1 6.1

Damage a place by force and take or destroy its things

emphasizes seizing land ownership unlawfully rather than mere violent damage
to depredate
vsto disseise
  • Formal
9.9

To take things and damage a place using force, often by people

concerns dispossessing landowners rather than general destructive plundering

How Forceful

to disseise
  • Archaic
9.9
to dispossess
11 8.4
to seize
277 3.2
to evict
77 4.6
to encroach
27 7.3
to trespass
11 4.9

Surface Forms

disseise infinitive
disseised past
disseised past participle
disseising present participle
disseises third person singular

Morphology

disseise = seize (semi-transparent) = dis + seise

The prefix 'dis-' indicates reversal, but the legal context of 'disseise' is specialized.

Etymology

Disseise comes from the part dis- meaning 'away' and the same root as seize meaning 'take', so to disseise someone is literally to 'take away' their possession. That's why the verb means to dispossess someone of land or property, often by force or in an illegal way.