seizin

Seizin: The act of taking possession, and what is so held.

Not only did he make free of my marshes, he also took seizin of me, to come and go and look and know.

If such a machine were actually to succeed in seizin g power in Washington, tendencies toward the creation of an authoritarian police state would inevitably increase.

"When you filled your hands with his person you took seizin of Hay, and Radnor, and Builth and Brecon and I know not what besides.

In Majorca the Seizin Press was enlarged to become a publishing imprint, producing inter alia the substantial hardbound critical magazine Epilogue (1935-1938), edited by Riding with Graves as associate editor.

Isabella demanded of the regency council of her young son King Henry III the seizin of her dowry lands of Niort in Poitou, Exeter Castle and Rockingham Castle.

Another deed of 29 June 1621, was from William Houston to William Adair, whereby James Glover, Notary Public, recorded delivery of seizin (sasine) of 4 merk land of Carnewell ( Cairnweil ), next to Kirkmadrin Church, in the Parish of Toscartoun.

The practice of enfeoffing feoffees with fees, that is to say of granting legal seizin in one's land-holdings ("holdings" as only the king himself "owned" land by his allodial title) to a group of trusted friends or relatives or other allies whilst retaining use of the lands, began to be widespread by about 1375.