Law. transitive. To put in legal possession (properly confined to freehold interests in corporeal hereditaments; formerly sometimes inaccurately…

Law. (In technical use written seise.) transitive. To put (a person) in legal possession of a feudal holding; to invest or endow with property; to…

transitive. To put (a person) in possession.

transitive. To put into seisin or possession; to ‘seize’ (of something). (The opposite of disseisin, v.)

transitive. Of a person or body of people: to hold or occupy (a place or territory); to reside or be stationed in; to inhabit (with or without…

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

To put, place, or establish (a person) in full or legal possession or occupation of something; = invest, v. 1b. Chiefly in passive, and usually…