An inquiry taken in 1579 as to the extent of the manor of Dangan, finds him then seised thereof (Inquis.
In 1343 he became one of the sureties for the appearance of the suspected Earl of Desmond, on whose flight Sir John's estates were seised to the crown and withheld for some years.
An heir in ward shall have an action of waste against his lord as if his ancestor had died seised of the land.
Joint tenants are distinguished from tenants in common by Littleton thus: "Joint-tenants are, as if a man beseised of certain lands or tenements, etc.
And if any deceased person had the use for himself and his heirs, then any of his heirs shall have the same advantages and defenses as if his ancestor had died seised of the land and tenements.
If a person feoffs his land to other persons while retaining the use thereof for himself, it shall be treated as if he were still seised of the land.
Gosefield (being obliged to accept the averment) said: 'Sir, they were never seised of common for more beasts than could be wintered and fed and supported on the growth of the said land.
As against this Adam produced a charter witnessing that the King had granted him the right of cutting cloth in the same way as other freemen, and, by virtue of the charter, he maintained that he had been seised from time whereof, &c.
Note: This is the common spelling in the law phrase to be seised of (an estate).
By law the tenure of a person who died seised of a tenure in a lord's demesne which was hereditary [seisin of fee] returned to the lord, who had to give it to the heir of the decedent.
I take this company as witness that here I strip myself of everything I own, so that naught is mine, but all is his, of what I once was seised and possessed.
We would that you grant to your son the sum and total of your substance, so that he be seised of all your wealth, and this in such fashion that neither you, nor any in your name, may claim return of any part thereof.
If any customary tenant die seised of an estate of inheritance without a will or devise, then his eldest son or next cousin ought to have the tenement, as his next heir, according to the custom of the manor.
If any customary tenant die seised of a customary tenement, having no sons but a daughter or daughters, then the eldest daughter being unpreferred in marriage shall have the tenement as his next heir, .
Crouch thereupon disseised Fleyer, who brought his action against Crouch, pleading that Butler and his ancestors were seised of Crouch and his ancestors as of villeins regardant, from time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
The jury found that Butler and his ancestors were seised of Crouch and his ancestors until the first year of the reign of Henry VII.
We prepared ourselves to take the country's recreation, some to hunt, some to fish, but prevented by a feaver that seised on us all.
That is, if the defendant pleaded in bar of an action that the plaintiff was his bondman he generally said, I am not bound to answer A, because he is my villain and I am seised of him as of my villain as regardant to my manor of C.
Everything depended on the settlement of one question--was the lord seised at the time, or not?
But strictly and legally the lord's plea was undoubtedly good: the courts admitted it, and when it was put forward proceeded to examine the question of fact whether the lord had been actually seised of certain or of uncertain services[224].
But in legal pleadings and documents which state the doctrine of the common law and the king's courts the villain tenements are part of the lord's demesne, he is seised of them in his demesne (in dominico suo).
Since his death, I acquainted the Secretary of Estate that he dyed in debt, and his creditors seised on his goods and papers.
He haz told me that he had oftentimes dream't that he was at Rome, and being in fright that he should be seised on and brought before the pope, did wake with the feare.
I am not quite certain that I can satisfactorily answer Mr. Corser's query; but at least I am able to show that a Sir George Buck, seised in fee of lands in Lincolnshire, did die in or about 1623.
Now are you two lawfully seised and possessed of all Old England,' began Puck, in a sing-song voice.
He had his sword by his side, but the boyes surprized him: somebody had throwen a stone in at the windowe; and they seised on the first man they lighted on.
But that in his life time he was seised of two shops and 13 messuages with appurtenances in the street called Holbourne in the suburb of London situated between a tenement of Jordain de Barton on the east (he was a Chauff-cier, i.
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