disseisin

In the new law courts—for Fort Mayne was over—the lawyers were as busy as bees, issuing writs for attainder, chancery, chevisance, disseisin, distraint, distress, embracery, exigent, fieri facias, maintenance, replevin, right of way, oyer and terminer, scot and lot, Quorum bonorum, Sic et non, Pro et contra, Jus primae noctis, and Questio quid juris?

We even find in the Mirror that the villains ought to have the assise of novel disseisin as a remedy in case of dispossession.

It is an assize of novel disseisin brought by a certain William the son of Henry against his lord Bartholomew the son of Eustace.

When it pleased the lord afterwards to eject the tenant, this latter actually brought an assize of novel disseisin and recovered possession.

The court went in this case even further than Bracton's treatise would have warranted: the villain was considered as having the freehold, and an assize of novel disseisin was granted; but although such a treatment of the case was perhaps not altogether sound, the chief point on which the contention rested is brought out clearly enough.