seisin

American  

[see-zin] / ˈsi zɪn /

Sometimes seizin

noun

Law.

1. (originally) possession of either land or chattel.

2. the kind of possession or right to possession characteristic of estates of freehold.

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seisin British  

/ ˈsiːzɪn /

noun

1. property law feudal possession of an estate in land

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Etymology

Origin of seisin

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English, from Old French saisine, equivalent to sais(ir) “to take, seize” + -ine noun suffix; see origin at seize, -in(e) ²

Example Sentences

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seisin

In the latter country also, there were a good many special types of symbol characteristically appropriate to seisin in special kinds of property.

From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various

For you very well know, that they would be correct, Mr. Fish being in peaceable possession of the premises, whether he were so by seisin or disseisin, by right or by wrong.

From Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe Or, the Pretended Riot Explained by Apess, William

The first is a fine for having seisin of the lands of the deceased mother of the two suitors, William de Warburton and Ingelram de Monceaux.

From Notes and Queries, Number 68, February 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

John Palmer is put in seisin of his father's tenement and gives the lord 53s.4d. as entry money.

From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by Reilly, S. A.

Next he discovered another possession—or so it seemed—approached it and took seisin of it in the same dumb way; and so with another and another.

From The Long Night by Weyman, Stanley John