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Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:08:16 -0500
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Re: Deed Terms
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Just a thought: could seisin be related to our modern concept of  
taking an object, as in 'seizing'?

Could the term livery be an ancestor of our 'delivery'? Obviously this  
could be stretching a point or two, but the similarities seem to be  
there.

Livery of seisin = delivery of possession?

Janice



Symonds wrote:

> and requiring as essential to its completion that the seisin be  
> passed... a gift of a freehold interest in land accompanied by  
> livery of seisin. The essential part is the livery of seisin".
>

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