Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law: Originally, the completion of the ceremony of feudal investiture, by which the tenant was admitted into his freehold.
- noun Hence— Possession as of freehold—that is, the possession which a freeholder could assert and maintain by appeal to law.
- noun Possession of land actual or constructive under rightful title.
- noun The thing possessed.
- noun (e ) Ownership and possession of chattels.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in
deed or inlaw ; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United Statesseizin means merelyownership . - noun obsolete The act of taking possession.
- noun The thing possessed; property.
- noun (Eng. Law) See Note under
Livery , 1.
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- noun Alternative form of
seisin .
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Examples
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"'Janooary wan, Private Dooley distinguished himsilf at th' Battle iv Ogoowan in th 'island iv Samar be rushin' out in a perfect hell iv putty-balls, rice, arrers, an 'harsh cries, an' seizin 'th' gin'ral iv th 'Tamalese an' batin 'him over th' head with his own bean-blower.
Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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The old conveyance of feoffment, with livery of seizin—the turf and twig—clearly had to go.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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The old conveyance of feoffment, with livery of seizin—the turf and twig—clearly had to go.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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The old conveyance of feoffment, with livery of seizin—the turf and twig—clearly had to go.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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"No wonder he was making such a fuss of hunting for whoever was responsible-and then seizin" on yon poor woman who couldna even speak for herself.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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Sussex, and others, to deliver seizin of all his lands in Sussex to certain persons therein named.
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But, before this, William was to show himself as a warrior beyond the bounds of his own duchy, and to take seizin, as it were, of his great continental conquest.
William the Conqueror Freeman, E A 1913
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For on landing the Portuguese, guided by Morales, soon found the wooden cross and grave of the Englishman and his mistress, and it was there that Zarco, with no human being to dispute his title, "took seizin" of the island in the name of King John, Prince Henry, and the
Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. C. Raymond Beazley 1911
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After this feast, the King brought the Count of Poitiers to Poitiers, that he might take seizin of his fiefs, but when the King was come to Poitiers, he would gladly have been back again in Paris; for he found that the Count of La Marche, who had eaten at his table on Saint John's day, had got together a number of men-at-arms at Lusignan by Poitiers.
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Yes, and bringing them to shore he led them, unerring, to the wooden cross above the beach; and there, over the grave of these lovers, Zarco took seizin of the island in the name of King John of Portugal, Prince Henry, and the
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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