NOVEL DISSEISIN. The name of an old remedy which was given for a new or
recent disseisin.
2. When tenant in fee simple, fee tail, or for term of life, was put
out, and disseised of his lands or tenements, rents, find the like; he might
sue out a writ of assize or novel disseisin; and if, upon trial, he could
prove his title, and his actual seisin, and the disseisin by the present
tenant, be was entitled to have judgment to recover his seisin and damages
for the injury sustained. 3 Bl. Com. 187. This remedy is obsolete.