Seisin in United States

Seisin Definition

The completloli of the feudal Investiture, by which the tenant was admitted into the feud, and performed the rites of homage and fealty. Stearns, Real Actions, 2. Possession with an intent on the part of him who holds it to claim a freehold interest. 8 N. H. 58; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 35; 115 111. 183. Immediately upon the investiture or livery of seisin, the tenant became tenant of the freehold; and the term “seisin” originally contained the idea of possession derived from a superior lord of whom the tenant held. There could be but one seisin, and the person holding it was regarded for the time as the rightful owner. Litt. § 701 ; 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 136. In the early history of the country, livery of seisin seems to have been occasionally practiced. See 1 Washb. Real Prop. 34, note; Colony Laws (Mass.) 85, 86; Smith, Landl. & Ten. (Morris Ed.) 6, note. Seisin and ownership, as to corporeal hereditaments, in the common law sense of the term, mean practically the same thing. 115 111. 182. In Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, seisin means merely “ownership,” and the distinction between seisin in deed and in law is not known in practice. Walk. Am. Law, 324, 330; 4 Day (Conn.) 305; 4 Mass. 489; 14 Pick. (Mass.) 224; 6 Mete. (Mass.) 439. A patent by the commonwealth, in Kentucky, gives a right Df entry, but not actual seisin. 3 Bibb (Ky.) 57. Seisin in fact is possession with intent on the part of him who holds it to claim a freehold interest. Seisin in law is a right of immediate possession according to the nature of the estate. Cowell; tiomyn. Dig. “Seisin” (A 1, 2). See “Livery of Seisin.”

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The completloli of the feudal Investiture, by which the tenant was admitted into the feud, and performed the rites of homage and fealty. Stearns, Real Actions, 2. Possession with an intent on the part of him who holds it to claim a freehold interest. 8 N. H. 58; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 35; 115 111. 183. Immediately upon the investiture or livery of seisin, the tenant became tenant of the freehold; and the term “seisin” originally contained the idea of possession derived from a superior lord of whom the tenant held. There could be but one seisin, and the person holding it was regarded for the time as the rightful owner. Litt. § 701 ; 1 Spence, Eq. Jur. 136. In the early history of the country, livery of seisin seems to have been occasionally practiced. See 1 Washb. Real Prop. 34, note; Colony Laws (Mass.) 85, 86; Smith, Landl. & Ten. (Morris Ed.) 6, note. Seisin and ownership, as to corporeal hereditaments, in the common law sense of the term, mean practically the same thing. 115 111. 182. In Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, seisin means merely “ownership,” and the distinction between seisin in deed and in law is not known in practice. Walk. Am. Law, 324, 330; 4 Day (Conn.) 305; 4 Mass. 489; 14 Pick. (Mass.) 224; 6 Mete. (Mass.) 439. A patent by the commonwealth, in Kentucky, gives a right Df entry, but not actual seisin. 3 Bibb (Ky.) 57. Seisin in fact is possession with intent on the part of him who holds it to claim a freehold interest. Seisin in law is a right of immediate possession according to the nature of the estate. Cowell; tiomyn. Dig. “Seisin” (A 1, 2). See “Livery of Seisin.”

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