Seisin

Seisin
1) Legal possession of a property.
(Gies, Frances and Joseph. Life in a Medieval Village, 245)
2) Possession (often contrasted with ownership) of land.
(Sayles, George O. The King's Parliament of England, 145)
3) The possession of land enjoyed by a person who is "seated" on the land, who is in a position to take what the land produces. Seisin of a freehold is occupation by one other than a tenant in villeinage, a tenant-at-will, a tenant for a term of years, or a guardian.
(Hogue, Arthur R. Origins of the Common Law, 257)
4) Feudal possession; the exercise and enjoyment of rights deriving from possession, usually of land, held as a freehold (but not as leasehold or a servile tenure). To be "in seisin" was to be "seized of" control of such an estate or other freehold rights. Livery of seisin (i.e., delivery of seisin by a grantor) was usually by some symbolic act. To be disseised was to be ousted from seisin.
(Warren, W.L. Henry II, 636)

Medieval glossary. 2014.

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