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seisin: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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seisin1 CONSTRUCTSeisinBAKER · 2002

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Property law

Recognised possession of a freehold estate

In the older common law of land, seisin was the legal possession of a freehold estate: not mere physical occupation, but the recognised status of being ‘seised’ of land, which carried the rights and remedies of a freeholder. Baker's An introduction to English legal history and Moynihan's property text describe how seisin was transferred by the public ceremony of ‘livery of seisin,’ handing over a clod of earth or a twig on the land itself, and how the whole medieval system of estates, remedies, and inheritance turned on who was seised. The referent is a formal status of freehold possession, central to feudal land law and now largely superseded by registered title, with no counterpart outside law.[1][2]

Unit
The recognised status of holding a freehold estate in land
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Marked historically by livery of seisin and by who held the freehold with its attendant remedies

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References

  1. Baker, J. H. (2002). An introduction to English legal history (4th ed.). Butterworths LexisNexis. ISBN 9780406930538
  2. Moynihan, C. J., & Kurtz, S. F. (2005). Moynihan's introduction to the law of real property (4th ed.). Thomson/West. ISBN 9780314160485

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