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Assise of mort d' ancestor

mort d' ancestor, a writ which lay where a person's father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, etc., died, seised of land, and a stranger abated. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27.

Aiel, or Aile

Fr.; avus Lat., a grandfather], a writ which lay when a man's grandfather, or great-grandfather (called besaile), died seised of lands in fee-simple, and on the day of his death the heir was dispossessed of his inheritance

Advowson

advowson appendant, and two of them release their right of the patronage to the third, he then becomes seised of two thirds of the advowson as in gross and of the unsevered third as appendant; but on

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disseise

French dessaisir, from des-, prefix marking reversal + saisir to put in possession of] : to deprive of seisin wrongfully : unjustly dispossess dis·sei·sor [-sē-zər] n

Tenancy in Common

may vest in each tenant at different times. There being no entirety of interest among tenants-in-common, each is seised of a distinct though undivided share; they hold neither 'per mie' (not at all) nor 'per tout' and

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