Primer Seisin
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In English law
The right which the king had, when any of his tenant^ died seised of a knight's fee, to receive of the heir, provided he were of full age, one whole year's profits of the lands, if they were in immediate possession, and half a year's profits, if the lands were_ in reversion, expectant on an estate top life.
2 Bl. Comm. 66.
F SIMITIAE (Lat.) In English law. First f ri. 'ts; the first year's whole profits of a spi; itual preferment.
1 Bl. Comm. 284; Crafab, Hist. Eng. Law, 252.
PRIMO EXCUTIENDA EST VERB! VIS, ne sermonis vitio obstruitur oratio, sive lex sine argumentis. The force of a word is to be first examined, lest by the fault of diction the sentence be destroyed, or the law be without arguments.
Co. Litt. 68.