disseized
/dɪˈsiːzd/
verb
- Past tense of disseize; wrongfully took someone's property or land.
- The court found that the company had disseized the widow of her home.
- After the invasion, many landowners were disseized of their estates.
- The baron disseized the peasant's fields without any legal authority.
adjective
- Having been wrongfully deprived of property or land.
- The document listed all the disseized properties from the war.
- She felt like a disseized heir, cheated out of her inheritance.
- The disseized farmer filed a lawsuit to regain his land.