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DESSAISISSEMENT Definition & Legal Meaning

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In French law. When a person is declared bankrupt, he isImmediately deprived of the enjoyment and administration of all his property; this deprivation,which extends to all his rights, is called “dessaisissement.” Arg. Fr. Merc. Law, 556.

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