Meaning & use
seise
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To put someone in formal legal possession of property, especially real estate (a legal spelling variant of 'seize').
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The deed seised the eldest son of the entire estate.
Under old common law, a tenant could be seised of land for life.
A note on using this word
This spelling survives mainly in legal and historical writing, distinct from the everyday 'seize,' which means to take by force.
Words with a similar meaning
investenfeoff
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Words with an opposite meaning
dispossess
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