Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Assize of novel disseisin
hist. A writ for a tenant who has been disseised of lands and tenements. - also termed assisa novae disseysinae.
Disseisinam satin facit qui uti non permittit possessorem, vel minus commode, licet omnino non expellat
A person commits disseisin if he does not permit the possessor to enjoy, or makes the possessor's enjoyment less useful, even if the disseisor does not expel the possessor altogether. Co. Litt. 331.
Non jus, sed seisina facit stipitem
Not or but seisin, makes a stock (from which the tr; heritance must descend).
Seisin. seisina habenda
See DE SEISINA HABENDA.
Seisina facit stipitem
Seisin makes the stock.
actual seisin
See seisin in deed.
actual seisin.
See seisin in deed under SEIS;
constructive seisin
See seisin in law under SEISIN.
constructive seisin.
See seisin in law.
covenant of seisin
A covenant, usu. appearing in a warranty deed, stating that the grantor has an estate, or the right to convey an estate, of the quality and size that the grantor purports to convey. 0 For the covenant to be valid, the grantor must have both title and possession at the time of the grant. - Also termed covenant of good right to convey; right-to-convey covenant.
covenant of seisin.
See COVENANT (4).
customary seisin
See quasi seisin under SEISIN.
customary seisin.
See quasi seisin.
darrein seisin
n. [French "last seisin"] Hist. A tenant's plea in a writ of right. See SEISIN.
de fine pro redisseisina capiendo
n. [Law Latin "of a fine paid for one imprisoned for redisseisin"] Hist. A writ releasing a person who paid a reasonable fine after being imprisoned for a redisseisin.
de post disseisina
n. [Law Latin "of past disseisin"] Hist. A writ for recovery of land by a person who had previously recovered the land from a disseisor by a praecipe quod reddat or on a default or reddition, but who was again disseised by the same disseisor.
de redisseisina
n. [Law Latin "of redisseisin"] Hist. A writ for recovery of land or rent by a person who had previously recovered the land or rent by an assize of novel disseisin, but who was again disseised by the same disseisor. ( This writ is similar to de post disseisina. See DE POST DISSEISINA; DISSEISIN.
de seisina habenda
n. [Law Latin "of holding seisin"] Hist. A writ ordering the sovereign to deliver seisin of lands and tenements to a lord, after holding them for the allowed year and a day because the lord's tenant committed a felony.
disseisin
n. The act of wrongfully depriving someone of the freehold possession of property; DISPOSSESSION. - Also spelled disseizin.
equitable seisin
See seisin in law.
feoffment with livery of seisin
See FEOFFMENT (1).
fine pro redisseisina capiendo
[Law Latin "a fine to be taken for again disseising"] Hist. A writ that entitled a person imprisoned for twice dispossessing someone (redisseisin) to release upon payment of a reasonable fine.
fresh disseisin
See DISSEISIN.
fresh disseisin.
The right at common law of a person disseised of land to forcefully eject the disseisor from the land without resort to law, as long as the ejection occurred soon after the disseisin.
habere facias seisinam
n. [Law Latin "that you cause to have seisin"] Hist. A writ of execution commanding the sheriff to give the applicant seisin of the recovered land. ( This writ was the proper process for giving seisin of a freehold, as distinguished from giving only a chattel interest in land. See SEISIN.
legal seisin
See seisin in law under SEISIN
legal seisin.
See seisin in law.
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.
novel disseisin
n. A recent disseisin. See DISSEISIN; ASSISE OF NOVEL DISSEISIN.
nul disseisin
[Law French "no disseisin"] In a real action, a defendant's plea that the plaintiff was not deprived of the possession of any land and tenements. See DISSEISIN.
post disseisina
See DE POST DISSEISINA.
primer seisin
Hist. A right of the Crown to receive, from the heir of a tenant who died in possession of a knight's fee, one year's profits of the inherited estate (or half a year's profits if the estate was in reversion); FIRST FRUITS .
quasi-seisin
A copyholder's possession of lands, the freehold possession being in the lord. - Also termed customary seisin.
redisseisin
n. 1. A disseisin by one who has already dispossessed the same person of the same estate. 2. A writ to recover an estate that has been dispossessed by redisseisin. - Also spelled redisseizin. - redisseise (ree-dis-seez), vb. See DISSEISIN. Redisseisina See DE REDISSEISINA.
seisin
n. Possession of a freehold estate in land; ownership. - Also spelled seizin. - Also termed vesture; seisina; (in Scots law) sasine. "Originally, seisin meant simply possession and the word was applicable to both land and chattels. Prior to the fourteenth century it was proper to speak of a man as being seised of land or seised of a horse. Gradually, seisin and possession became distinct concepts. A man could be said to be in possession of chattels, or of lands wherein he had an estate for years, but he could not be said to be seised of them. Seisin came finally to mean, in relation to land, possession under claim of a freehold estate therein. The tenant for years had possession but not seisin; seisin was in the reversioner who had the fee. And although the word 'seisin' appears in modern statutes with a fair degree of frequency, it is usually treated as synonymous with ownership." Cornelius J. Moynihan, Introduction to the Law of Real Property 98-99 (2d ed. 1988).
seisin in deed.
Actual possession of a freehold estate in land, by oneself or by one's tenant or agent, as distinguished from legal possession. - Also termed seisin in fact; actual seisin. seisin in fact. See actual seisin.
seisin in fact
See actual seisin under SEISIN.
seisin in law.
The right to immediate possession of a freehold estate in land, as when an heir inherits land but has not yet entered it. - Also termed legal seisin; constructive seisin; equitable seisin. seisina (see-zin-o), n. [Law Latin] Hist
unity of seisin
The merging of seisin in one person, brought about when the person becomes seised of a tract of land on which he or she already has an easement.