postdisseisin

noun

post·​disseisin

variants or postdisseizin

¦⸗+

: a second disseisin by the same disseisor from lands recovered by the assize of novel disseisin

also : the writ that lay for it

Word History

Etymology

Anglo-French postdisseisine, from post- + disseisine disseisin

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