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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
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