Seised
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Possessed of land under claim of a freehold interest. Seisin: seisin in fact, actual possession, investiture of a freehold. Seisin in laiw: the estate of a person having a freehold interest, while dispossessed or before entry. Seised in his demesne as of fee: holding a fee simple, in a corporeal hereditament, of the superior lord; v. Livery, Feoffment.