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Primer seisin, a feudal burthen, only incident to the King's tenants in capite, and not to those who held of inferior or mesne lords. It was a right which the King had, when any of his tenants in capite died seised of a knight's fee, to receive of the heir (provided he were of full age) one whole year's profits of the lands, if they were in immediate possession; and half a year's profits, if they were in reversion, expectant on an estate for life. It was incident to socage-tenants in capite, as well as those who held by knight-service. It was abolished by 12 Car. 2, c. 24....
Tenure
Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H 479: 1971 Cur LJ 334.Means a right, term, or mode of holding lands or tenements in subordination to a superior; in fendal times, real property was held predominantly as part of a tenure system, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1481.Tenure, the mode of holding property. The only tenures in land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of tenure or holding is said to derive from feudalism, which separated the dominium directum (the dominion of the soil), which it placed mediately, or immediately, in the Crown, from the dominium utile (the possessory title), the right to use the profits ...
Primer fine
Primer fine. One suing out the writ or pr'cipe, called a writ of covenant, there was due to the Crown, by ancient prerogative, a primer fine, or a noble for every five marks of land sued for; that was one-tenth of the annual value, 1 Steph. Com....
seisin
seisin or sei·zin [sēz-n] n [Anglo-French seisine, from Old French saisine act of taking possession, from saisir to seize, of Germanic 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 one having title thereto 2 : the right to immediate possession of an estate or to immediate succession [ of an heir upon death of the testator] ...
Seisin
Seisin, possession. The word is now confined to the possession of an estate of freehold.Possession of a freehold estate in land; ownership, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1362.There is a seisin in deed, as when an actual possession is taken; or in law, where lands descend, and one has not actually entered upon them. Seisin of the freehold may be defined to be the possession of such an estate in land as was anciently thought worthy to be held by a free man (Williams on Seisin, p. 2). See Leach v. Jay, (1878) 9 Ch D 42; Copestake v. Hoper, (1908) 2 Ch 10; Thackray v. Norman, 1914 WN 303; and consult Williams onSeisin; Co. Litt. 266 b and 330 b (notes.See also addenda, REGISTER OF SASINES....
Primer election
Primer election, first choice....
Seisin, Livery of
Seisin, Livery of, formal delivery of possession, called by the Feudists investiture of a fee or feudal estate. Applicable to corporeal hereditaments while incorporeal hereditaments such as a remainder or easement were conveyed by writing under seal. After the Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 2, all corporeal hereditaments might be conveyed by deed, and now by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 25, conveyance by livery of seisin has been abolished. See FEOFFMENT....
livery of seisin
livery of seisin : an ancient ceremony for conveyance of land by the symbolic transfer of a relevant item (as a key, twig, or turf) or by symbolic entry of the grantee called also investiture see also feoffment ...
Uses
Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The Common Law treated the actual possessor for all purposes as the owner of the property. It was not difficult to find him out, 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 became evident that the simple rules of the Common Law were stumbling-blocks to the complicated wants of an enterprising people.Hence ingenuity was sharpened to hit upon a device which should set at nought the rigidity of existing law and formalities.A system was found by the monastic jurists upon a model furnished by the Civil Law, which, by a nice adaptation, evaded, without overturning, the Common Law. Two methods of transferring realty began to co-exist in this country-the ancient Common Law system, and the later invention, which is denomi...
Curtesy of England
Curtesy of England [jus curialitatis Angli', Lat.], an estate which by favour of the law of England arises by act of law, and is that interest which a husband has for his life in his wife's fee-simple or fee-tail estates, generalor special, aftr her death.Tenancy by the curtesy has been abolished by the (English) A.E. Act, 1925, s. 45, with regard to the inheritance of every person dying after 1925, but undr s. 130, (English) L.P. Act, 1925, curtesy will arise as an equitable interest in any property realor personal as an incident to an equitable intrest in-tail and in default of a disentailing assurance or the exercise of the testamentary power conferred by that Act, see sub-s. 4 ibid., and see the 12th Schedule to the (English) L.P. Act, 1922, in regrd to enfranchised copyholds.There are six circumstances necessary to the existence of this estate (which appears to be unaffected by the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1882):--(1) A canonicalor legal marriage.(2) Seisin of the w...
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