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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
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
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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
Joint-tenancy
of one joint-tenant is no longer to be deemed the possession of the other or others. Joint-tenants being seised per my et per tout, or, as Coke says, totum conjunctim et nihil per se separatim, enjoy a
Lease and release
a common assurance. For it was preferable to a bargain and sale, and to a covenant to stand seised to uses because it effected a transfer of the legal estate under the rules of the Common Law,
Diem clausit extremum
the escheator of the county was commanded to inquire by a jury of what lands the tenant died seised, and of what value, and who was the next heir to him. It was one of the five
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
Consumption and use
wife's death, becomes entitled to hold her lands in fee simple or fee tail, of which she was seised during the marriage, for his own life, provided he has had issue by her, capable of inheriting. His
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