seizin : Idioms & Phrases
Livery of seizin
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(Eng. Law) See Note underLivery , 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.
