A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out.
Origin
From French bisaïeul, from Old French beseel, from Latin bis ("twice") + aviolus, diminutive of avus.
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