Seisin definition:
The legal possession of property.
Related Terms: Custodia Legis, Freehold
In law, the term refers more specifically to the possession of land by a freeholder.
Seisin
(n) Seisin is defined as the stage of possessing a property specifically a landed property along with exclusive title to the property,
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Disseisin may be effected either in corporeal inheritances, or incorporeal. Disseisin of things corporcal, as of houses, lands, etc., must be by entry and actual dispossession of the freehold; e.g.
Seisin. French scisin, to make to possess or to sit upon. The possession of land under a claim, either express or implied by law, of an estate amounting at least to a freehold. Towle v. Ayer, 8 N.H. 59 (1835). See Seisina below.
Seisin
The legal possession of property. In law, the term refers more specifically to the possession of land by a freeholder.
SEISIN, estates. The possession of an estate of freebold. 8 N. H. Rep. 57; 3 Hamm. 220; 8 Litt. 134; 4 Mass. 408.
Seisin
Definition - Noun
[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 ...
seisin
(sees-in) n. an old feudal term for having both possession and ti...
seized
(seised) n. 1) having ownership, commonly used in wills as "I giv...
Covenant of Seisin & Covenant of Right to Convey - Covenants that represent the seller's promise that he has title and possession and can validly grant or convey both ...
HABERE FACIAS SEISINAM
practice, remedies. The name of a writ of execution, used in most real actions, by which the sheriff is directed that he cause the demandant to have... more ...
" Under the earlier law descent was traced from the last person who had "seisin" or feudal possession, and it was occasionally a troublesome question whether the heir or person entitled had ever, in fact, acquired such possession.
A writ of livery also developed which allowed persons to sue for possession of land under the feudal system. Livery (or "delivery") of the land was important in completing legal possession or, as it was known in the feudal system, seisin.
Livery (or "delivery") of the land was important in completing legal possession or, as it was known in the feudal system, seisin.
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