Seisina
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
I. Seisin. Seisina facit stipitem (seisin makes stock): the seisin determines the root of descent; v. Possessio fratris, etc. The old law by which descent was traced from the person last seised in fact; v. Non jus, etc.