seizin : Idioms & Phrases


Livery of seizin

  • . (Eng. Law) See Note under Livery, 1.
Webster 1913

Primer seizin

  • (Feudal Law), the right of the king, when a tenant in capite died seized of a knight's fee, to receive of the heir, if of full age, one year's profits of the land if in possession, and half a year's profits if the land was in reversion expectant on an estate for life; now abolished.
Webster 1913