Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Cosinage

Hist. A writ used by an heir to secure the right to land held by a greatgreat-grandfather or certain collateral relatives. - Also spelled cosenage; cousinage. -Also termed consanguineo; de consanguineo; de consanguinitate. Cf. AIEL; BESAYEL. "This remedy, by writ of assise, is only applicable to two species of injury by ouster, viz. abatement, and a recent or novel disseisin If the abatement happened on the death of one's grandfather or grandmother, then an assise of mort d'ancestor no longer lies, but a writ of ayle, or de avo; if on the death of the great grandfather or great grandmother, then a writ of besayle, or de proavo; but if it mounts one degree higher, to the tresayle, or grandfather's grandfather, or if the abatement happened upon the death of any collateral relation, other than those before-mentioned, the writ is called a writ of cosinage, or de consanguineo." 3 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the laws of England 185-86 (1768).