noun
- Plural of disseissor; persons who wrongfully dispossess another of land or property, especially in feudal or historical legal contexts.
Usage: archaic; legal/historical; chiefly British
Examples
- The disseisors were brought before the court to answer for their unlawful seizure of the estate.
- Medieval records document numerous disseisors who claimed lands through force rather than legal inheritance.
- The king's justices pursued the disseisors to restore the rightful heir to his property.
- In feudal law, disseisors faced severe penalties for depriving a lord of his demesne.
- The disseisors' actions violated the principle of seisin recognized by common law.