different between seising vs seisin

English

Verb

seising

1. present participle of seise

Noun

seising (plural seisings)

1. Dated form of seizing (lashing or binding with a cord)

English

Alternative forms

• seizin

Etymology

From Middle English seisin, seysen, from Old French seisin, from the verb seisir, from Vulgar Latin *saci?, from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Gothic ???????????????????????? (satjan) and Old English settan. More at seize, seise.

Noun

seisin (plural seisins)

1. (law, common law, historical) An entitlement to a freehold estate with a right to immediate possession; dates from feudal times but is still used in technical discussions of real property law today.
2. (obsolete) The act of taking possession.
3. (obsolete) The thing possessed; property.
   • 1713, Matthew Hale, The History of the Common Law of England

     Disseisin is a large title, and is an unlawful ENTRY AND OUSTER of him that has an ACTUAL seisin and freehold

Related terms

• sasine

Translations

See also

• livery of seisin

Anagrams

• niseis

Old French

Noun

seisin m (oblique plural seisins, nominative singular seisins, nominative plural seisin)

1. act of seizing

Synonyms

• saisine

Descendants

• ? English: seisin

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (saisin)