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It is theseisinof a defined district with the power of subinfeudation therein.
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I am informed that two local magistrates expressed a wish to adjudicate, but that as the resident magistrate hadseisinof the case he had jurisdiction to hold to bail.
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The latter is in some ways what many people understand by arbitration, although technically it is not an arbitration because the court retainsseisinof the matter.
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If it were spelt with an "s", it might be thought to be a modern version of the term "takeseisin", which simply means to possess.
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They had noseisin, nor a trespass, and therefore, ejectment could not be effected.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At one time the right of the wife to dower and of the husband to an estate by curtesy depended upon the doctrine ofseisin.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The deed is the modern descendant of the medieval charter, and delivery is thought to symbolically replace the ancient ceremony of livery ofseisin.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Before this statute a husband had no legalseisinin such lands as were vested in another to his use, but merely an equitable estate.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Only then could the heir pay his feudal relief to the treasury, which final step would enable him to obtainseisin, i.e., actual possession.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The king's escheator was enabled to takeseisinof the monastery, and the bishop's men were forced to retreat in haste.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The crown gave him fullseisinover the properties, and the legal battle quieted down for a while.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This was well-aimed, since it was uses that were destroying his income; the royal revenue was traditionally gathered throughseisin, which uses completely ignored.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Primerseisincan thus be seen as a variety of feudal burden, or feudal incident, that is to say a right exercisable by an overlord over his vassal's holding.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The forms of action in trespass vi et armis, among other forms of action in trespass andseisinwere developed at this time.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.That instrument was the lease for a year (lease for possession) followed on the following day by a release of the property, thus avoiding livery ofseisin.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Between the death of the previous tenant and the newseisin, there was an empty tenure of the fief, which was legally inconvenient, but tolerated as generally of short duration.
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