Seisin

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Legal possession of land, as a freehold estate.
  • n. The act or an instance of taking legal possession of land.
  • n. Property thus possessed.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A feudal term for an entitlement to a freehold estate with a right to immediate possession; still used in technical discussions of real property law today.
  • n. The act of taking possession.
  • n. The thing possessed; property.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. See seizin.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. See seizin.
    • Word Usage
    "Little groups were trickling in all the time to swear fealty to their new king, and they were using an ancient ritual they referred to as "seisin," a ritual probably as old as the earth-taking ritual."
    Cross Reference
    livery of seisin   
    Variant
    seizin   
    Same Context
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