[001] they are in seisin in the name of their lords or others. But what of one who has a [002] wrongful seisin, by disseisin or intrusion, and is disseised by one having no right, [or] [003] has been enfeoffed by a non-lord and disseised by one having no right; does the plaint [004] and remedy by assise lie for him? At first sight it seems not, since the disseisor has [005] what seems an adequate exception against the assise, namely, that the disseisee had [006] only a tenuous seisin, or that, because of its wrongful beginning, he could have neither [007] a fee nor a free tenement. But in truth, though such unlawful possessor would have [008] no action against true lords, nevertheless, because of the advantage of a possessor, [009] he will have the plaint and remedy by assise against those who have no right, and [010] they will have no exception of tenuous seisin or free tenement against him.1 Because [011] of the privilege of the possessor, I say, for if those having no right and being out of [012] seisin had claimed, since they would have no proper action they would never recover [013] against the possessor, though his possession is wrongful, and possession would thus [014] remain undisturbed.2 Since they thus have no action and have disseised him, though [015] a wrongful possessor, when they could not recover by judgment, if he claims by the [016] assise, though it does not lie for him as of right, it nevertheless proceeds, in view of [017] the odium connected with disseisin, because against him the aforesaid disseisors may [018] have no exception.3<And [because], since neither of them has right, neither fee nor [019] free tenement, judgment must be given for the first possessor, because of first seisin, [020] since the second ejector had no right to expel, and because the thing could remain [021] with the first forever, through the negligence of the true lord, because of the advantage [022] inherent in possessing.> The remedy by assise and the plaint lies for him who has [023] title for a time against all, no matter by whom he has been enfeoffed, a lord or non-lord, [024] against him who has no right and him who has right, as where one [has been [025] enfeoffed] by a non-lord, a guardian or a farmer holding for a term of years certain, [026] or one who has entered by disseisin or intrusion; if the feoffee holds peacefully for a [027] time, he cannot be ejected by the true lord without writ and judgment, provided the [028] time is such as may suffice for title. He cannot be ejected by the non-lord, since he [029] has his title from him, because of the title and the feoffment, and because of his act, [030] even though no time has passed; nor by him who has no right, though the possessor [031] has neither title nor time; but he may be ejected with impunity by the true lord if [032] time sufficient for title has not passed. Similarly, remedy and restitution by the assise [033] lies for him who is in seisin wholly without any title, by disseisin or intrusion, and is [034] disseised without judgment, against all, whether they have right or not, provided he [035] has the time that suffices for title. Thus time sometimes aids possession just as title [036] does. The plaint and