seisin
sasine ScoE old use

The man who should see you take seisin of this land is dead.

Well, you have taken seisin of my life between you.

The precise nature of the seisin varies from one culture to another.

She graduated from Seisin University and her writing career began in 1980.

English law.has directed its attention not to ownership, but to possession, or, as it is called in the case of land, seisin.

The crown gave him full seisin over the properties, and the legal battle quieted down for a while.

There are lots of them up in these hills, seisin gatherers and conservation workers."

The most important legal concept in the feudal period in relation to land was seisin.

It's fairly obvious to me that the seisin ceremony itself is a primitive piece of contamination-magic.

Livery of seisin: A term used in English law.

Instead seisin was used a term signifying feudal possession.

Also, there are isolated freeholds all through this area, mostly higher up, where the seisin grows."

The new Article 30 seeks to introduce an autonomous interpretation of the concept of seisin.

They had no seisin, nor a trespass, and therefore, ejectment could not be effected.

The hall built on this mount was the chief messuage of the Barony, where seisin was invested.

This was called livery of seisin.

The cestui que use had seisin.

The king's escheator was enabled to take seisin of the monastery, and the bishop's men were forced to retreat in haste.

Livery of seisin could refer to either:

Induction is a vestige of the medieval legal practice of livery of seisin.

Livery of seisin - "delivery of possession"

Before this statute a husband had no legal seisin in such lands as were vested in another to his "use", but merely an equitable estate.

"developed as another strategy to avoid public transfer of seisin, in response to the limitations imposed by the Statute of Enrolments.

It was like enlarging herself tenfold into a chill but resplendent vastness, like taking seisin of the night.

In English land law, the concept of "seisin" (settled possession) lies behind more modern ideas of ownership or possession.