(law, obsolete) 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.
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Origin of besaiel
Old French beseel, Frenchbisaïeul, from Latinbis (“twice”) + Late Latin avolus, diminutive of Latinavus (“grandfather”).