Sedition

crimes, consists in of an estate of freehold; seisin was _ the raising commotions or distur- used in contradistinction to that prebances in the state;. it is a revolt carious kind of possession by which against legitimate authority. Ers- tenants in villenage held their lands, kine, Princ. Laws Scotl. b.4, t. 4, which was considered to be the pos- 8.14; Dig. Lib. 49, t.

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3, §19. session of their lords in whom the The obnoxious and obsolete act of freehold continued. Scisin is either July 14, 1798, 1 Story’s Laws U. in fact or in law. Where a freehold S. 543, was called the sedition law, estate is conveyed to a person by because its professed object was to feoffinent, with livery of scisin, or by prevent disturbances. Inthe Scotch any of those conveyances which delaw, scdition is either verbal or real. rive their effect from the statute of Verbal is inferred from the uttering uses, he acquires a scisin indeed or of words tending to create discord in fact, anda freehold in deed: but between the king and his people; where the frechold comes to a perreal sedition is generally committed son by act of law, as by descent, he by convocating together any consi- only acquires a scisin in law, that derable number of people, without is, a right of possession, and his eslawful authority, under the pretence tate is called a freehold in law. The of redressing some public grievance, seisin in law, which the heir acto the disturbing of the public peace. quires on the death of his ancestor, Ersk. et supra. may be defeated by the entry of a