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Excerpt from The History of English Law, Vol. 2: Before the Time of Edward I
Protection of possession, 40. Modern theories, 40. Possession and criminal law, 41. Possession and the law of tort, 41. Possession as a bulwark of property, 42. Possession as a kind of right, 42. Contrast between various principles, 43. The various principles in English law, 44. Disseisin as an offence, 44. Disseisin as a tort, 44. Possessory action against the third hand, 45. Proof of seisin and proof Of owner ship, 45. Seisin as a root of title, 46.
Introduction of possessory actions, 46. The novel disseisin, 47. Protection Of wrongful seisin, 49. Relativity of seisin, 50. Novelty of the disseisin, 51. 'unjustly and without judgment,' 52. Bigoro prohibition of self-help, 52. Trespass and disseisin, 53. Disseisin of absent possessor, 53. Scope of the assize, 54. The assize and the third hand,55.
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