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there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means merely ownership. Burrill.

The act of taking or grasping suddenly.

The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold. [Written also disseisin.] Blackstone.

A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished. Burrill. Tomlins.

A disseizin by one who once before was adjudged to have dassezed the same person of the same lands, etc.; also, a writ which lay in such a case. Blackstone.

The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne.

To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.

The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite. I have known a very good fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite. Walton.

The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal. Even with regard to captures made at sea. Bluckstone.

Act of seizing; a grasp. Sir P. Sidney.

The act of seizing or taking hold of Catching bargain (Law), a bargain made with an heir expectant for the purchase of his expectancy at an inadequate price. Bouvier.

To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold. [Written also disseise.] Which savage beasts strive as eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize them thereof. Holland…

Disseizin. Speed.

The act or proceeding of seizing personal property by distress. Abbott.

f bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leaves.

Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats.

A seizing or seizure; close hug in contest; the wrestler's hold. Milton.

Reach of the arms; hence, the power of seizing and holding; as, it was beyond his grasp.

Seizing; embracing; catching.

A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called also housing. Totten.