disseisin
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disseisin (plural disseisins)
- (law) The act of disseising.
- (law) The act of depriving one of land or chattels.
- The United States cannot acquire jurisdiction tortiously or by disseisin of the state, or by occupancy with merely the tacit consent of the state.