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Aiel, or Aile

(called besaile), died seised of lands in fee-simple, and on the day of his death the heir was dispossessed of his inheritance by a stranger, Fitz N. B. 222.

Assise of novel disseisin

Assise of novel disseisin, an action to recover property of which a party had been disseised, i.e., dispossessed, after the last circuit of the judges. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27.

(1) on a reference from the licensing justices (s. 19), and (2) on payment of compensation to the dispossessed licensees (s. 20). The reference is obligatory on the licensing justices when they are of opinion that the

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Lawful possession

with a temporary right to enforce recovery of the property in case a person is wrongfully or forcibly dispossessed from it. Juridical possession is possession protected by law against wrongful dispossession but cannot perse always be equated

Lien

a matter of title or special property, to reclaim the property, by action, if he have been unlawfully dispossessed of it. A lien does not import a right of sale. Sometimes a Court of Equity has decreed

Limitation of actions and prosecutions

the date of the fresh trespass. A trespasser acquires no right of which the rightful owner was not dispossessed by the trespasser, for instance; a trespasser occupying land held under a lease acquires no rights against the

Ejector

One who or that which ejects or dispossesses

Magna Carta

when travelling was perilous and slow, went their circuits but once in seven years; all disseisins then or dispossessings of the lawful owners of lands which took place before the last circuits were ancient, but all disseisins

Fire and sword, letters of

addressed to the sheriff of the county, authorizing him to call for the assistance of the county to dispossess a tenant unlawfully retaining possession, Bell's Scots Law Dict.

Expropriation

Expropriation, the surrender of a claim to exclusive property; also, dispossessing an owner of his property, wholly or partially. See Housing Acts. A government taking or modification of an

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