seisinn.

Brit.

/ˈsiːzɪn/, U.S.

/ˈsizn/

Forms: Middle English sesin, Middle English sesyn(e, sesine, Middle English–1600s sesyng(e, Middle English–1600s sesing, Middle English sesun, seson, sesen, sesynn, 1500s Scottish sessing, 1600s sezin; Middle English cesoun, Middle English cesone; Middle English saysyne, sayzine, Middle English saisine, 1500s saysing, saising, 1600s Scottish saseing; Middle English seasyng, 1500s seasyne, Middle English–1600s season, 1500s seasen, 1500s–1600s seasin, 1500s ceassing, 1600s seasing, seasin; Middle English seysyn(e, Middle English–1700s seisine, Middle English seisyn(e, Middle English–1500s seising, 1500s seissin, seizine, 1500s–1600s seizon, seison, 1600s seizen, seisen, seysin, Middle English– seisin. Also Scottish sasine n.

Etymology: < French saisine (from 13th cent.) = Provençal sazina (whence Italian sagina ), < French saisir , Provençal sazir : see seize v.

a. In early use, Possession: chiefly in phrases, to have take seisin (in, of). Now only in Law, Possession as of freehold.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > freehold

seisin1297

freeholdinga1325

freehold1414

seisininga1450

seizure1592

seise1607

freeholdership1701

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 6431 King knout of edmondes londes anon seisine nom.

1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 6012 Yn alle here landes he toke sesyne, And was þan a ryche lordyng.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 7621 Of prest was þer no benisoun,..In sesyn þe kyng had hure þat nyght.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 144 And þervore zayþ oure Lhord þet þe kingdom of hevene is hare, naȝt wyþoute more be beheste, ac be saysyne zykere.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3360 He drogh hir ner and still spak, ‘Yon es mi lauerd ysaac,..Of him now sal þou ha sesin’.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xxi. 222 Theise 3 Bretheren had Cesoun in alle the Lond.

c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1812 Wolde honest deth come, and me ouerterue, And of my graue me put in seisyne.

c1425 Cast. Persev. 767 in Macro Plays 100 In all þis worlde..here I ȝyfe þee with myn honde, syr, an opyn sesun.

c1425 Eng. Conq. Irel. (1896) 82 Reymond went ouere yn-to Walys to take seysyne yn hys fadyr landys.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 67/1 Cesone in londe, or oþyr go(o)d takynge, seisina.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vi. 496 He had him in his sesing.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clxvii. [clxiii.] 463 To entre and take season of the castell.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 500/2 The Legate (hauing after fiue dayes seysin redeliuered the Crowne, but not yet released the Censures, till conditions were performed).

1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 31 Here this word (seised) extendeth it selfe as well to a seison in law, or a ciuill seison, as to a seison in deed, which is a naturall seison... For a woman shall be endowed of a seison in Law.

1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 197 The heire of a free man shall by descent be in such seisin as his ancester had at the time of his death, doing service and paying releif; and shall have his chattailes.

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. v. 66 Immediately upon the death of a vasal the superior was intitled to enter and take seisin or possession of the land.

1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 413 The law vested the seisin in law in the daughters upon the death of the father.

1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone III. iv. 65 The Grange had only devolved to him by will, at the end of a long entail,..and..he had gone abroad, without taking seisin.

1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. i. 40 The proper meaning of the word ‘seisin’ is possession as of freehold; i.e. the possession which a freeholder has.

b. The phrases to give, take seisin are sometimes used with special reference to the symbolical acts called livery of seisin (see livery n. Scottish). Hence, in popular language, seisin has been occasionally applied loosely to the object (e.g. a turf, a key, a staff) handed over in ‘livery of seisin’ as a token of possession.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > transfer of property > putting in possession > [noun] > handing over of symbol of possession > object handed over

to give seisin1523

1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xi. f. 14 The stewarde..shall delyuer to hym y^t shall haue the lande the same yerde, or another in the name of season.

1629 Vse of Law 54 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light And in Seisin thereof, hee deliuereth to him a Turfe, twig, or Ring of the doore.

1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. to Henry VII I. iii. 136 A soldier..plucked some thatch, which, as if giving him seizine of the kingdom, he presented to his general [William].

1863 J. Keble Life T. Wilson: Pt. I v. 168 Giving a kind of seizin by the delivery of a straw.

figurative.1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida ii. sig. D2 Gal. Thy lips, and loue, are mine. Mell. You nere tooke seizin on them yet.1609 L. Andrewes Serm. (1629) iv. 30 He sends the Spirit of his Sonne, to give us seisin of this our Adoption.1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 243 The story that he [William the Conqueror]..stumbled on the shore and converted it into an omen of good luck, by professing to take seisin of the new territory.1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. xxi. 462 His horse fell with him, and forced him to take seisin of the soil in the roughest fashion.

c. primer (also premier, †first) seisin: see primer adj. Now historical.

ΚΠ

1459 Rolls of Parl. V. 362/1 And the seid Edward..used to have and had..the furst seisine of all Londes..of every Tenaunt that held of them in chief.

1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 210 Wardships, Liueries, Primier Seisines, and Alienations.

1875 J. C. Curtis Elem. Hist. Eng. 396 All wardships, forfeitures for marriage.., premier seisins..for alienation.

2. Scots Law. The act of giving possession of feudal property by the delivery of symbols; infeftment. Also, the instrument by which the possession of feudal property is proved.

ΚΠ

14.. Chalmerlan Ayr §4 (Sc. Acts I) Item at þai gif seising heratabill or of lang tym of ony baronagis [etc.].

1498 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 30/2 Quhil the lauchfull are or aeris thairof optene lachfull state and sesing of the sammyn.

1499 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 60/2 Confirmand a letter of sessing mad and gevin thairuppon to the said Wilȝame.

1521 Stirling Burgh Rec. (1887) I. 13 Sir James Akman, chep~lane,..produsit..ane attentic chartour and seissin of twa markis of obit silver to be upliftit..to the feft chaplanis yeirly.

1540 in Sc. Acts Jas. V (1814) II. 375/1 The persoun..havand privait stait & saising of þe saidis landis.

1592 in Oppress. Orkney & Zetld. (1859) 101 But charter or seasing.

1604–5 Aberd. Acc. in Spalding Club Miscell. V. 78 Ane skyn of parchement to wreit the sesing of the said chartour of mortificatioun.

1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 2 Item, for ane precept of saising, conforme to the chartour, to the Chan~cellar for the fie of the seale, ane mark.

1693 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. (ed. 2) ii. iii. §16. 199 These Charters..never become a real Right till they be compleated by Seasin, which imports the taking of Possession.

1693 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. (ed. 2) ii. iii. §19. 201 Albeit the most ordinar Warrant of Seasins be the Superiors Precept ingrossed or related to in the Seasin.

1696 London Gaz. No. 3228/2 Act anent the Registration of Seasings.

1733 J. Innes Idea Juris Scotici 77 And the Seisin itself is nothing else but an Instrument (of a settled Style)..setting forth that upon such a Day..the Disponee was seized and invested in the Feu in Virtue of his Disposition.

1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. ii. xii. 251 Apprysings were, by the former practice, preferable, according to the dates of the seisins following upon them, where the debtor himself was infeft.

Compounds

† seisin-ox n. Obsolete an ox formerly due as a perquisite to the sheriff when he gave infeftment to crown lands.

ΚΠ

1567 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 40/1 That na saising ox..be gevin or takin for na maner of saising tobe takin.

a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) II. iii. viii. §795 85 The sheriff who thus gives seisin, was by our old customs intitled to a seisin-ox as his fee.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† seisinv.

Forms: Middle English seysne, ceson, cesun, seysonne, sesyn, seson, seisyne, 1500s season, seasne, seizon.

Etymology: < seisin n.; compare medieval Latin sesināre; there may have been an Anglo-Norman *seisiner: compare Old French seisineor (agent-noun) and seisinement (noun of action).

Obsolete.

1. transitive. To give seisin of (property).

ΘΚΠ

society > law > transfer of property > putting in possession > put (a person) in possession [verb (transitive)] > give possession of

seisin13..

seizea1400

to deliver (also give, receive) state and seisin1606

13.. Guy Warw. (Caius) 8590 I will season into thyn hande Evyn halfen deale of my lande.

2. To invest with the seisin of property; to put in possession; = seize v.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > transfer of property > putting in possession > put (a person) in possession [verb (transitive)]

feoffc1290

seizec1290

enseisec1420

inseisinc1440

possessc1450

seisinc1450

vest1464

c1450 Godstow Reg. 135 Þei preied..þat [they] wold..commaund to seysonne hem in hit.

c1450 Godstow Reg. 661 Bernarde of Seynt Walerye yaf the forsaid towne..and graunted hit to kyng henry and seisyned hym (by a silken cloth, wherof was a chesible I-made) with the lordship and the right of the Avowery of the same Abbey.

3. To confiscate (property); to apprehend (a prisoner); = seize v. 5.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)]

at-holda1230

attacha1325

resta1325

takec1330

arrest1393

restay?a1400

tachec1400

seisinc1425

to take upa1438

stowc1450

seize1471

to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels?1515

deprehend1532

apprehend1548

nipa1566

upsnatcha1566

finger1572

to make stay of1572

embarge1585

cap1590

reprehend1598

prehenda1605

embar1647

nap1665

nab1686

bone1699

roast1699

do1784

touch1785

pinch1789

to pull up1799

grab1800

nick1806

pull1811

hobble1819

nail1823

nipper1823

bag1824

lag1847

tap1859

snaffle1860

to put the collar on1865

copper1872

to take in1878

lumber1882

to pick up1887

to pull in1893

lift1923

drag1924

to knock off1926

to put the sleeve on1930

bust1940

pop1960

vamp1970

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [verb (transitive)] > seize lands or goods

disseisec1330

seisinc1425

disseisin1548

c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 57 Yf he wolle denay hit the kyngis officer hym as a theyf may holde and sesyne And for to be condempnyd betake hym to the Iugys.

c1450 Godstow Reg. 155 He nother his heires shold never..sesyn the lond of the same for the defaute of the same Robert.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Esdras vi. 32 All his goodes shalbe seasoned to y^e kynge.

4. To seize, take hold of; to take root.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (intransitive)] > be or become established

morea1200

roota1382

to take roota1450

take1523

to take rooting1548

to be well warmed1565

seisin1568

to sit down1579

to come to stay1863

1568 G. Skeyne Breue Descriptioun Pest vi. sig. A8 Quhan all apperis to succede weill, than the tirane [sc. the Plague] sessinis rute and slayis sonest.

5. intransitive. To seize upon.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)]

gripea900

afangOE

to lay hands (or hand) on or upon (also in, to)OE

repeOE

atfonga1000

keepc1000

fang1016

kip1297

seize1338

to seize on or upon1399

to grip toc1400

rapc1415

to rap and rendc1415

comprise1423

forsetc1430

grip1488

to put (one's) hand(s) on (also in, to, unto, upon)1495

compass1509

to catch hold1520

hap1528

to lay hold (up)on, of1535

seisin?c1550

cly1567

scratch1582

attach1590

asseizea1593

grasp1642

to grasp at1677

collar1728

smuss1736

get1763

pin1768

grabble1796

bag1818

puckerow1843

nobble1877

jump1882

snaffle1902

snag1962

pull1967

?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 178 Cerdicius bie littell and litell seasoned on the weaste partes of the Ile.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 267/1 The kinges officers came..to season vpon hys goods in the kinges behalfe.

1587 W. Baldwin et al. in J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) iii. Wolsey xlv One Wealsh, a Knight, came downe in good aray, And seasned sure,..On Wolsey wolfe, that spoiled many a lambe.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1548/1 Such, as vpon whom the infection was seizoned.

Derivatives

† ˈseisining n. Obsolete chiefly = seisin n.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > freehold

seisin1297

freeholdinga1325

freehold1414

seisininga1450

seizure1592

seise1607

freeholdership1701

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail lv. l. 214 I schal..Corowne hym kyng be My levenge, & Of Alle My londis to ȝeven him sesenynge.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxiv. 266 Thus the kyng of England had the possession and sesenynge of the duchie of Aquitayne.

1547 in J. H. Glover Kingsthorpiana (1883) 88 Such as have landes by will or testament, shall paye for their sesianynge vis.

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii A Seazning of goods to the kings vse. Confiscation.

† ˈseisiner n. Scottish Obsolete lawful possessor (of lands).

ΚΠ

1498 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 35/1 The letter made to him be his said fader makand him sessonar and assignay to al his landis of M^ckaristonn.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	seisin
释义	seisinn. Brit. /ˈsiːzɪn/, U.S. /ˈsizn/ Forms: Middle English sesin, Middle English sesyn(e, sesine, Middle English–1600s sesyng(e, Middle English–1600s sesing, Middle English sesun, seson, sesen, sesynn, 1500s Scottish sessing, 1600s sezin; Middle English cesoun, Middle English cesone; Middle English saysyne, sayzine, Middle English saisine, 1500s saysing, saising, 1600s Scottish saseing; Middle English seasyng, 1500s seasyne, Middle English–1600s season, 1500s seasen, 1500s–1600s seasin, 1500s ceassing, 1600s seasing, seasin; Middle English seysyn(e, Middle English–1700s seisine, Middle English seisyn(e, Middle English–1500s seising, 1500s seissin, seizine, 1500s–1600s seizon, seison, 1600s seizen, seisen, seysin, Middle English– seisin. Also Scottish sasine n. Etymology: < French saisine (from 13th cent.) = Provençal sazina (whence Italian sagina ), < French saisir , Provençal sazir : see seize v. 1. a. In early use, Possession: chiefly in phrases, to have take seisin (in, of). Now only in Law, Possession as of freehold. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > freehold seisin1297 freeholdinga1325 freehold1414 seisininga1450 seizure1592 seise1607 freeholdership1701 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 6431 King knout of edmondes londes anon seisine nom. 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 6012 Yn alle here landes he toke sesyne, And was þan a ryche lordyng. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 7621 Of prest was þer no benisoun,..In sesyn þe kyng had hure þat nyght. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 144 And þervore zayþ oure Lhord þet þe kingdom of hevene is hare, naȝt wyþoute more be beheste, ac be saysyne zykere. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3360 He drogh hir ner and still spak, ‘Yon es mi lauerd ysaac,..Of him now sal þou ha sesin’. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xxi. 222 Theise 3 Bretheren had Cesoun in alle the Lond. c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1812 Wolde honest deth come, and me ouerterue, And of my graue me put in seisyne. c1425 Cast. Persev. 767 in Macro Plays 100 In all þis worlde..here I ȝyfe þee with myn honde, syr, an opyn sesun. c1425 Eng. Conq. Irel. (1896) 82 Reymond went ouere yn-to Walys to take seysyne yn hys fadyr landys. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 67/1 Cesone in londe, or oþyr go(o)d takynge, seisina. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vi. 496 He had him in his sesing. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. clxvii. [clxiii.] 463 To entre and take season of the castell. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 500/2 The Legate (hauing after fiue dayes seysin redeliuered the Crowne, but not yet released the Censures, till conditions were performed). 1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 31 Here this word (seised) extendeth it selfe as well to a seison in law, or a ciuill seison, as to a seison in deed, which is a naturall seison... For a woman shall be endowed of a seison in Law. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 197 The heire of a free man shall by descent be in such seisin as his ancester had at the time of his death, doing service and paying releif; and shall have his chattailes. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. v. 66 Immediately upon the death of a vasal the superior was intitled to enter and take seisin or possession of the land. 1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 413 The law vested the seisin in law in the daughters upon the death of the father. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone III. iv. 65 The Grange had only devolved to him by will, at the end of a long entail,..and..he had gone abroad, without taking seisin. 1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. i. 40 The proper meaning of the word ‘seisin’ is possession as of freehold; i.e. the possession which a freeholder has. b. The phrases to give, take seisin are sometimes used with special reference to the symbolical acts called livery of seisin (see livery n. Scottish). Hence, in popular language, seisin has been occasionally applied loosely to the object (e.g. a turf, a key, a staff) handed over in ‘livery of seisin’ as a token of possession. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > putting in possession > [noun] > handing over of symbol of possession > object handed over to give seisin1523 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xi. f. 14 The stewarde..shall delyuer to hym y^t shall haue the lande the same yerde, or another in the name of season. 1629 Vse of Law 54 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light And in Seisin thereof, hee deliuereth to him a Turfe, twig, or Ring of the doore. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. to Henry VII I. iii. 136 A soldier..plucked some thatch, which, as if giving him seizine of the kingdom, he presented to his general [William]. 1863 J. Keble Life T. Wilson: Pt. I v. 168 Giving a kind of seizin by the delivery of a straw. figurative.1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida ii. sig. D2 Gal. Thy lips, and loue, are mine. Mell. You nere tooke seizin on them yet.1609 L. Andrewes Serm. (1629) iv. 30 He sends the Spirit of his Sonne, to give us seisin of this our Adoption.1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 243 The story that he [William the Conqueror]..stumbled on the shore and converted it into an omen of good luck, by professing to take seisin of the new territory.1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. xxi. 462 His horse fell with him, and forced him to take seisin of the soil in the roughest fashion. c. primer (also premier, †first) seisin: see primer adj. Now historical. ΚΠ 1459 Rolls of Parl. V. 362/1 And the seid Edward..used to have and had..the furst seisine of all Londes..of every Tenaunt that held of them in chief. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 210 Wardships, Liueries, Primier Seisines, and Alienations. 1875 J. C. Curtis Elem. Hist. Eng. 396 All wardships, forfeitures for marriage.., premier seisins..for alienation. 2. Scots Law. The act of giving possession of feudal property by the delivery of symbols; infeftment. Also, the instrument by which the possession of feudal property is proved. ΚΠ 14.. Chalmerlan Ayr §4 (Sc. Acts I) Item at þai gif seising heratabill or of lang tym of ony baronagis [etc.]. 1498 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 30/2 Quhil the lauchfull are or aeris thairof optene lachfull state and sesing of the sammyn. 1499 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 60/2 Confirmand a letter of sessing mad and gevin thairuppon to the said Wilȝame. 1521 Stirling Burgh Rec. (1887) I. 13 Sir James Akman, chep~lane,..produsit..ane attentic chartour and seissin of twa markis of obit silver to be upliftit..to the feft chaplanis yeirly. 1540 in Sc. Acts Jas. V (1814) II. 375/1 The persoun..havand privait stait & saising of þe saidis landis. 1592 in Oppress. Orkney & Zetld. (1859) 101 But charter or seasing. 1604–5 Aberd. Acc. in Spalding Club Miscell. V. 78 Ane skyn of parchement to wreit the sesing of the said chartour of mortificatioun. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 2 Item, for ane precept of saising, conforme to the chartour, to the Chan~cellar for the fie of the seale, ane mark. 1693 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. (ed. 2) ii. iii. §16. 199 These Charters..never become a real Right till they be compleated by Seasin, which imports the taking of Possession. 1693 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. (ed. 2) ii. iii. §19. 201 Albeit the most ordinar Warrant of Seasins be the Superiors Precept ingrossed or related to in the Seasin. 1696 London Gaz. No. 3228/2 Act anent the Registration of Seasings. 1733 J. Innes Idea Juris Scotici 77 And the Seisin itself is nothing else but an Instrument (of a settled Style)..setting forth that upon such a Day..the Disponee was seized and invested in the Feu in Virtue of his Disposition. 1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. ii. xii. 251 Apprysings were, by the former practice, preferable, according to the dates of the seisins following upon them, where the debtor himself was infeft. Compounds † seisin-ox n. Obsolete an ox formerly due as a perquisite to the sheriff when he gave infeftment to crown lands. ΚΠ 1567 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 40/1 That na saising ox..be gevin or takin for na maner of saising tobe takin. a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) II. iii. viii. §795 85 The sheriff who thus gives seisin, was by our old customs intitled to a seisin-ox as his fee. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † seisinv. Forms: Middle English seysne, ceson, cesun, seysonne, sesyn, seson, seisyne, 1500s season, seasne, seizon. Etymology: < seisin n.; compare medieval Latin sesināre; there may have been an Anglo-Norman seisiner: compare Old French seisineor* (agent-noun) and seisinement (noun of action). Obsolete. 1. transitive. To give seisin of (property). ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > putting in possession > put (a person) in possession [verb (transitive)] > give possession of seisin13.. seizea1400 to deliver (also give, receive) state and seisin1606 13.. Guy Warw. (Caius) 8590 I will season into thyn hande Evyn halfen deale of my lande. 2. To invest with the seisin of property; to put in possession; = seize v. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > putting in possession > put (a person) in possession [verb (transitive)] feoffc1290 seizec1290 enseisec1420 inseisinc1440 possessc1450 seisinc1450 vest1464 c1450 Godstow Reg. 135 Þei preied..þat [they] wold..commaund to seysonne hem in hit. c1450 Godstow Reg. 661 Bernarde of Seynt Walerye yaf the forsaid towne..and graunted hit to kyng henry and seisyned hym (by a silken cloth, wherof was a chesible I-made) with the lordship and the right of the Avowery of the same Abbey. 3. To confiscate (property); to apprehend (a prisoner); = seize v. 5. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] at-holda1230 attacha1325 resta1325 takec1330 arrest1393 restay?a1400 tachec1400 seisinc1425 to take upa1438 stowc1450 seize1471 to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels?1515 deprehend1532 apprehend1548 nipa1566 upsnatcha1566 finger1572 to make stay of1572 embarge1585 cap1590 reprehend1598 prehenda1605 embar1647 nap1665 nab1686 bone1699 roast1699 do1784 touch1785 pinch1789 to pull up1799 grab1800 nick1806 pull1811 hobble1819 nail1823 nipper1823 bag1824 lag1847 tap1859 snaffle1860 to put the collar on1865 copper1872 to take in1878 lumber1882 to pick up1887 to pull in1893 lift1923 drag1924 to knock off1926 to put the sleeve on1930 bust1940 pop1960 vamp1970 society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [verb (transitive)] > seize lands or goods disseisec1330 seisinc1425 disseisin1548 c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 57 Yf he wolle denay hit the kyngis officer hym as a theyf may holde and sesyne And for to be condempnyd betake hym to the Iugys. c1450 Godstow Reg. 155 He nother his heires shold never..sesyn the lond of the same for the defaute of the same Robert. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Esdras vi. 32 All his goodes shalbe seasoned to y^e kynge. 4. To seize, take hold of; to take root. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (intransitive)] > be or become established morea1200 roota1382 to take roota1450 take1523 to take rooting1548 to be well warmed1565 seisin1568 to sit down1579 to come to stay1863 1568 G. Skeyne Breue Descriptioun Pest vi. sig. A8 Quhan all apperis to succede weill, than the tirane [sc. the Plague] sessinis rute and slayis sonest. 5. intransitive. To seize upon. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)] gripea900 afangOE to lay hands (or hand) on or upon (also in, to)OE repeOE atfonga1000 keepc1000 fang1016 kip1297 seize1338 to seize on or upon1399 to grip toc1400 rapc1415 to rap and rendc1415 comprise1423 forsetc1430 grip1488 to put (one's) hand(s) on (also in, to, unto, upon)1495 compass1509 to catch hold1520 hap1528 to lay hold (up)on, of1535 seisin?c1550 cly1567 scratch1582 attach1590 asseizea1593 grasp1642 to grasp at1677 collar1728 smuss1736 get1763 pin1768 grabble1796 bag1818 puckerow1843 nobble1877 jump1882 snaffle1902 snag1962 pull1967 ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 178 Cerdicius bie littell and litell seasoned on the weaste partes of the Ile. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 267/1 The kinges officers came..to season vpon hys goods in the kinges behalfe. 1587 W. Baldwin et al. in J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) iii. Wolsey xlv One Wealsh, a Knight, came downe in good aray, And seasned sure,..On Wolsey wolfe, that spoiled many a lambe. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1548/1 Such, as vpon whom the infection was seizoned. Derivatives † ˈseisining n. Obsolete chiefly = seisin n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > freehold seisin1297 freeholdinga1325 freehold1414 seisininga1450 seizure1592 seise1607 freeholdership1701 a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail lv. l. 214 I schal..Corowne hym kyng be My levenge, & Of Alle My londis to ȝeven him sesenynge. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxiv. 266 Thus the kyng of England had the possession and sesenynge of the duchie of Aquitayne. 1547 in J. H. Glover Kingsthorpiana (1883) 88 Such as have landes by will or testament, shall paye for their sesianynge vis. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii A Seazning of goods to the kings vse. Confiscation. † ˈseisiner n. Scottish Obsolete lawful possessor (of lands). ΚΠ 1498 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 35/1 The letter made to him be his said fader makand him sessonar and assignay to al his landis of M^ckaristonn. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1297v.13..
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