disseisin by election

disseisin by election
A legal fiction under which an owner might elect to admit disseisin and consider himself disseised for the purpose of securing or availing himself of the remedy by action of novel disseisin against an adverse claimant; but if he did not elect to consider himself disseised, the freehold was not divested, but still continued in him. Varick v Jackson (NY) 2 Wend 166. See disseisin by construction of law.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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