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  • 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.
  • SEIZURE
    In practice. The act performed by an officer of the law, under the authority and exigence of a writ in taking into the custody of the law the property, real or personal, of a person against whom the judgment of a competent court has passed, condemning him to pay a More...
  • SELDA
    A shop, shed, or stall in a market; a wood of sallows or willows; also a sawpit. Co. Litt 4.
  • SELECT COUNCIL
    The name given, in some states, to the upper house or branch of the council of a city.
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