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  • SEEN
    This word, when written by tbe drawee on a bill of exchange, amounts to an acceptance by the law merchant Spear v. Pratt 2 Hill (N. Y.) 582, V- Am. Dec. 600^ Barnet v. Smith, 30 N. H. 256, 64 Am. Dec. 290; Peterson v. Hubbard, 28 Mich. 197.
  • SEIGNIOR
    In its general signification, means "lord," but in law it is particularly applied to the lord of a fee or of a manor; and tbe fee, dominions, or manor of a seignior is thence termed a "seigniory," i, e., a lordship. He who is a lord, but of no manor, More...
  • SEIGNIORAGE
    A royalty or prerogative of the sovereign, whereby an allowance of gold and silver, brought in the. mass to be exchanged for coin, is claimed. Cowell! Mintage; the charge for coining bullion into money at the mint.
  • SEIGNIORESS
    A female superior.
  • SEIGNIORY
    In English law. A lordship; a manor. The rights of a lord, as such, in lands.
  • SEISI
    In old English law. Seised; possessed.
  • SEISINA
    L. Lat Seisin. Seisina faoit stipitom. Seisin makea the stock. 2 BL Comm. 209; Broom, Max. 525, 52a
  • SEISINA HABENDA
    A writ for delivery of seisin to the lord, of lands and tenements, after the sovereign, in right of his prerogative, had had the year, day, and waste on a felony committed, etc. Beg. Orig. 165.
  • SEIZIN
    See SEISIN.
  • SEIZING OF HERIOTS
    Taking the best beast, etc., where an heriot is due. on the death of the tenant 2 BL Comm. 422.
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