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Libera

Libera, a livery or delivery of so much corn or grass to a customary tenant, who cut down or prepared the

feoffare, to give a feud,] the transfer of freehold land, in ancient times, by word of mouth and livery of seisin, i.e., by the delivery to the transferee of corporal possession of the land or tenement; see

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since the possession of his estate was conferred upon him by a formal and notorious ceremony, technically called livery of seisin, which was performed openly and in the presence of the people of the locality. It soon

seisin

origin] 1 : the possession of land or chattels: as a : the possession of land arising from livery of seisin see also livery of seisin b : the possession of a freehold estate in land by

Tenure

destroyed at the Restoration. The statute 12 Car. 2, c. 24, enacted that the Court of award and liveries, and all wardships, liveries, primer seisins and ouster-lemains, values, and forfeitures of marriage, by reason of any tenure

Symbolic delivery

Symbolic delivery. See SEISIN, LIVERY OF.

Lease and release

s. 51), the immediate freehold of corporeal tenements is deemed to lie in grant as well as in livery, and the conveyance by lease and release has thus become obsolete.

Resseiser

Resseiser, the taking of lands into the hands of the Crown, where a general livery or ouster le main was formerly misused, Staundf. Pr'rog

Parish Clerk

ancient in the City of London; yet they stand at the bottom of the list, and have neither livery nor the privilege of making their members free of the City. See 2 Steph. Com., 7th Edn. 700.

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