seizin
- a variation of seisin.
Example Sentences
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Since seizin power in mid-August last year, the Taliban have imposed harsh edicts in Afghanistan, harking back to their repressive rule during the late 1990s.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2022
Sussex, and others, to deliver seizin of all his lands in Sussex to certain persons therein named.
From Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850 by Various
There were some formal rites attending the transfer of the land and the ancient "livery of seizin" ceremony was duly enacted.
From Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck by Williams, Harrison
And a soldier, running to a neighboring cottage, plucked some thatch, which, as if giving him seizin of the kingdom, he presented to his general.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John by Hume, David
But one comfort he'd ivver i' stooar, An he'd creep to his favorite nook, An seizin his old pipe once mooar, All his trubbles would vanish i' smook.
From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by Hartley, John
