Seisin - Law Dictionary Search Results

Seisin

Seisin, possession. The word is now confined to the possession of

seisin or sei·zin [sēz-n] n [Anglo-French seisine, from Old French saisine

Seisin, Livery of, formal delivery of possession, called by the Feudists

Keep your definitions linked to case research

livery of seisin : an ancient ceremony for conveyance of land by the

Primer seisin, a feudal burthen, only incident to the King's tenants in

by a formal and notorious ceremony, technically called livery of seisin, which was performed openly and in the presence of the

Women's Property Act, 1882):-- (1) A canonicalor legal marriage. (2) Seisin of the wife; as to corporeal hereditaments, it must be

1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c.106), s. 2. 'Livery of seisin simply means the delivery of the feudal possession'; Williams on

[Lat.] (a spark of law and title). A possibility of seisin, which was supposed to exist in the grantee to uses,

Seisina facit stipitem. Before the Inheritance Act 1833, the old rule

Try the research workspace — 7 days free