Seisin Sentence Examples

Feudal law required that the king should take seisin of the earldom before regranting it and receiving the homage, and the sheriff of Ayr was directed to take it on Baliol's behalf.

The disabilities under which a feudal owner very frequently lay gave rise to the practice of conveying land by other methods than that of feoffment with livery of seisin, that is, a handing over of the feudal possession.

The essential elements were livery of seisin (delivery of possession), which consisted in formally giving to the feoffee on the land a clod or turf, or a growing twig, as a symbol of the transfer of the land, and words by the feoffor declaratory of his intent to deliver possession to the feoffee with a "limitation" of the estate intended to be transferred.

Experience, however, has 1 Up to the middle of the 15th century "seisin " was applied to chattels equally with freeholds, the word " possessed " being rarely used.

Robert Bindloss and Uter Gilpin, clerk, are appointed attorneys to deliver seisin.

Order to cause her to have full seisin without delay of such of the forests in the counties that are in his custody.

Hamo de Crevequer took seisin of his lands in 1217; he died in 1263 and was succeeded by his grandson Robert.

Ralph and ' laud recovered seisin of the premises but were " in mercy " for a false claim against the Vicar.

In the following spring, Isabella was awarded seisin of the stannaries of Devon, apparently in partial recompense.