1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 24… (1911)
“ SEISIN (from M. Eng. saysen, seysen, in the legal sense of to put in possession of, or to take possession of, hence, to grasp, to seize; the O. Fr. seisir, saisir, is from Low Lat. sacire, generally referred to the same source as Goth. satjan, O. Eng. settan, to put in place, set) , the possession of such an estate in land as was anciently thought worthy to be held by a free man (Williams, On Seisin, p. 2) . Seisin is of two kinds, in law and in deed. Seisin in law is where lands descend and the heir has not actually entered upon them ”
