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Seisina

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

seyslna, saisina, I. I In old English law. Seisin; possession of a freehold estate. Seisina facit stipitem: seisin makes the stock; seisin of a person makes him the root or stock from which all future^ inheritance by right of blood must be derived; a maxim now, in general, of no force under existing statutes.