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Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means merely ownership.

Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means merely ownership.

In law, (a) possession. Seizin is of two sorts-seizin in deed or fact and seizin in law. Seizin in fact or deed is actual or corporal possession: seizin in law is when something is done which the law accounts possession or seizin, as enrolment, or when lands descend to an heir but he has not yet entered on them. In this case the law considers the heir as seized of the estate, and the person who wrongfully enters on the land is accounted a disseizor: (b) the act of taking possession: (c) the thing possessed; possession.

Possession of a freehold.

n. [French] Possession of an estate of freehold;—the thing possessed; possession;—the act of taking or entering on possession.