Seisin Definition

sēzin
noun
Legal possession of land, as a freehold estate.
American Heritage

Seizin.

Webster's New World
The act or an instance of taking legal possession of land.
American Heritage
Property thus possessed.
American Heritage

Ownership of land; used in early British law, because ownership of the land belonged to the sovereign. It referred to the person in possession of a freehold estate. See also covenant.

Webster's New World Law

Other Word Forms of Seisin

Noun

Singular:
seisin
Plural:
seisins

Origin of Seisin

  • Middle English seysen, from Old French seisin, from the verb seisir, from Vulgar Latin *saciō, from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (satjan) and Old English settan. More at seize.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English seisine from Old French saisine from seisir to seize seize

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Seisin Sentence Examples

  • Feudal law required that the king should take seisin of the earldom before regranting it and receiving the homage, and the sheriff of Ayr was directed to take it on Baliol's behalf.

  • The disabilities under which a feudal owner very frequently lay gave rise to the practice of conveying land by other methods than that of feoffment with livery of seisin, that is, a handing over of the feudal possession.

  • The essential elements were livery of seisin (delivery of possession), which consisted in formally giving to the feoffee on the land a clod or turf, or a growing twig, as a symbol of the transfer of the land, and words by the feoffor declaratory of his intent to deliver possession to the feoffee with a "limitation" of the estate intended to be transferred.

  • Experience, however, has 1 Up to the middle of the 15th century "seisin " was applied to chattels equally with freeholds, the word " possessed " being rarely used.

  • Robert Bindloss and Uter Gilpin, clerk, are appointed attorneys to deliver seisin.

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Words Starting With

SSESEI

Words Ending With

NINSIN

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