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ABATEMENT OF FREEHOLD

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 7 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABATEMENT OF See also:FREEHOLD  takes See also:place where, after the See also:death of the See also:person last seised, a stranger enters upon lands before the entry of the See also:heir or devisee, and keeps the latter out of See also:possession . It differs from intrusion, which is a similar entry by a stranger on the death of a See also:tenant for See also:life, to the See also:prejudice of the reversioner, or See also:remainder See also:man ; and from disseisin, which is the forcible or fraudulent See also:expulsion of a person seised of the See also:freehold .

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