Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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feoffment with livery of seisin
See FEOFFMENT (1).
livery of seisin
Hist. The ceremony by which a grantor conveyed land to a grantee. ( Livery of seisin involved either (1) going on the land and having the grantor symbolically deliver possession of the land to the grantee by handing over a twig, a clod of dirt, or a piece of turf (called livery in deed) or (2) going within sight of the land and having the grantor tell the grantee that possession was being given, followed by the grantee's entering the land (called livery in law). See SEISIN. "[W]e may now pause to wonder how transfer of these potentially infinite interests was accomplished. Without a modern system of land records, it would be desirable that the transfer be effected with sufficient ceremony not only to mark itself indelibly in the memories of the participants, but also to give notice to interested persons such as the mesne lord above the transferor. The central idea was to make ritual livery (meaning
livery of seisin.
See LIVERY OF SEISIN.