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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