Meaning & use
Seised
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Placed in legal possession of a freehold estate (a legal spelling variant of 'seized').
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The deed confirmed that the family had been seised of the manor since the fifteenth century.
Under common law, a tenant seised of the land could pass it to his heirs.
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A legal spelling variant of 'seized,' still used in property law to describe formal possession of real estate, as in the phrase 'seised in fee simple.'
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