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Seisin

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Seisin, Livery of

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livery of seisin

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Primer seisin

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Uses

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

Curtesy of England

appears to be unaffected by the (English) Married Women's Property Act, 1882):-- (1) A canonicalor legal marriage. (2) Seisin of the wife; as to corporeal hereditaments, it must be a seisin indeed, either actualor virtual (Co. Litt.

Livery

possession, now superseded by the Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c.106), s. 2. 'Livery of seisin simply means the delivery of the feudal possession'; Williams on Seisin, p. 99. Also, release from wardship; also

Scintilla juris et tituli

Scintilla juris et tituli [Lat.] (a spark of law and title). A possibility of seisin, which was supposed to exist in the grantee to uses, when all actual seisin was taken from him

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