单词 | to give, take seisin |
释义 | > as lemmasto give, take seisin 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 yt 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. < as lemmas |
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