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Primer seisin

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

Possession

species of presumptive title where land descended to the heir of an abator, intruder, or disseisor, who died seised; in law, when lands, etc., have descended to a man, and he has not actually entered into them;

Que estate

prescriptive rights are claimed by reason of the continuous and immemorial enjoyment thereof by the claimant, a person seised in fee, and by all those whose estate he has, this is called a prescription in a que

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Release

By entry and feoffment, as a disseisee releasing to one of two disseisors, who then becomes as solely seised as if the disseisee had entered upon the property, put an end to the disseisin, and then enfeoffed

Scintilla juris et tituli

him this estate the whole seisin of A. is exhausted; now the marriage takes effect, and who is seised to the use of C (Burt. Comp., 6th Edn. p. 59). This doctrine of scintilla juris, the knowledge

Seisina facit stipitem

old rule of intestate succession to real estate was that descent must be traced from the person last seised, i.e., in possession. (Seisin makes the heir.) But see now the Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm.

Tail

modes of assurance of a fee-simple were feoffment (at the Common Law), bargain and sale, covenant to stand seised, a release (under the Statute of Uses), or grant, which is the best mode of assurance, and which

Gavelkind

of their respective fathers. The partible quality of gavelkind extends also to estates-tail, for if a person die seised in tail of lands held in gavelkind, all his sons shall inherit together as heirs of his body.

Hospitals

Jac. Law Dict. By 39 Eliz. c. 5, made perpetual by 21 Jac. 1, c. 1, any person seised of an estate in fee-simple may, by deed enrolled in Chancery, erect and found a hospital for the

Cosenage, or cosinage

writ that lay for the heir where the tresail, i.e., the father of the besail, or great-grandfather, was seised of lands in fee at his death, and a stranger entered upon the land and abated, Fitz. N.B.

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