CHAP. XXXII.
In the last place, it remains for us to speak, concerning that species of Recognition, which is called Novel Disseisin.[472] When any one, therefore, unjustly and without a Judgment, has disseised another of his Freehold; and the case fall within the King’s Assise, or in other words, within the time for such purpose appointed by the King with the advice of his[473] Nobles (which is sometimes a greater,[474] sometimes, a less period) this Law comes to the aid of the person disseised, who shall have the following Writ——