Thereupon he issued orders to the Guardians to deliver seisin of the kingdom to the new King, and to the castellans of the twenty-three chief strongholds to deliver them over to Balliol or his representatives.
He and Thomas Ingham reported that Fastolf told them at the time it was his will that Paston should have those things he had granted at the time of the seisin of the said feoffment delivered, whatever was written in the parchment.
Hence the testimony of these witnesses was false, that Fastolf, about the beginning of Autumn five years ago, had made to John Paston estate and feoffment and livery of seisin of his manor of Caister, and other lands in Cos.
In the same way the annals of Dunstable speak of the seisin of the township of Toddington[779], and of a feoffment made by them on behalf of the lord.
It is always important to decide whether a bondman is in theseisin of his lord or not, and the chief means to show it is to trace his connexion with the territorial lordship.
The connexion with a manor becomes the chief means of establishing and proving seisin of the villain.
John Franklain is put in seisin of his father's tenement and gives the lord 20s.
Whereas the characteristic award of the common law courts was seisin of land or monetary damages, Chancery often enjoined certain action.
William Alice's son is put in seisin of a bakehouse in the King's Street, and shall keep up the house at his own cost and gives 12d.
Agnes Mabely is put in seisin of a farthing land which her mother held, and gives the lord 33s.
John Palmer is put in seisin of his father's tenement and gives the lord 53s.
After his death, and before the birth of his older son's son, the writ of seisin was executed.
Robert Smith is put in seisin of his father's tenement and gives the lord four pounds for entry money.
In Puck of Pook's Hill Mr Kipling takes seisin of England in all times--more particularly of that trodden nook of England about Pevensey.
Finally, there is, in The Day's Work, clear evidence of Mr Kipling's intention ultimately to abandon the hills and plains of India and to take literaryseisin of the country and chronicles of England.
I have written for Pollock a paper about seisin and had occasion to deal with a bit of Bracton which, as printed, is utter rubbish.
This extension began with the assize of novel disseisin, whereby the king protected by royal writ and inquest of neighbours every seisin of a freehold.
Before this statute a husband had no legal seisinin such lands as were vested in another to his "use," but merely an equitable estate.
The normal symbol of seisinfor a house in England, was (before the Act 7 and 8 Victoria ch.
In the latter country also, there were a good many special types of symbol characteristically appropriate to seisin in special kinds of property.
In ancient times the law laid great stress on the feudal possession or seisin of lands, and this possession could only be had by the holder of an estate of freehold, that is, an estate sufficiently important to belong to a free man.
One dominium rises above another dominium, one seisin over another seisin.
Footnote 100: In feudal law seisin or possession is conceived of as concrete rather than abstract.
Any encroachment on the waste, therefore, is regarded as the imposition of a newseisin upon the old seisin, as an occupation over the lord, who in this case is the King.
The King is in seisin of the wardship of the lands and heirs of all the tenants of the same manor, and can hold them when he deems it to his advantage, and then he shall have no heriot.
The desire to escape from these burdens and limitations gave rise to the practice of making feoffments to the use of, or upon trust for, persons other than those to whom the seisin or legal possession was delivered.
It was allowed that a bargain and sale for a term, say, of one year, must transfer the seisin to the bargainee without enrolment.
Henry was determined to protect lawful seisin of land and issued assizes [legal promulgations] giving the Royal Court authority to decide land law issues which had not been given justice in the shire or lord's court.
There came to be a hierarchy of seisin [rightful occupation] of land so that there could be no land without its lord.
Issues of seisin were brought to the Royal Court by a contestant in a local court who "put himself [or herself] upon the King's grand assize".
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.
Testimony of a warrantor (or an attorney sent by him in his place) or a charter of warranty served to prove seisin by gift, sale, or exchange.
Mark now the cunning craft with which he set about to take his seisin of the realm.
So the sergeants took seisin of cows and oxen, and brought to the camp in droves all that was desirable for meat.
Seisin is a legal word, which simply means possession, or rather the bodily holding of a thing, and is used especially of corporeal hereditaments.
You ladies have seisin of this house and lands, although you never seized them.
Your estates have been longer in the seisin of one family, madam, than any other in the Riding, or perhaps in Yorkshire.
The whole business was in fact to be as formal as the delivery of the seisin of Scotland to Edward during the suit for the succession.
Edward was to have seisin of Scotland and its royal castles, though he pledged himself to return both land and fortresses to him who should be chosen king.
The English seneschal surrendered the six castles and the seisin of the land.
On Edward's taking seisin of Scotland, the regency came to an end.
And by his means it was so far proceeded with on that day, that a certain simple seisin was made to one of the monks of Coventry by delivery of one book.
I will put myself in seisin of this liberty, and afterwards will defend myself thereupon by the help of St. Edmund, whose right our charters testify it to be.
