seisin in law

seisin in law
The right to immediate possession of land under a freehold title. The right to make immediate seisin, which, existing in a husband during coverture, is a subject to which common-law dower or its statutory equivalent attaches. 25 Am J2d Dow § 26. Although the law passed an inheritance to the heir immediately on the death of his ancestor, the heir thereby acquired only a seisin in law, and this, alone, did not enable him to transmit the inheritance to his heirs. He must have obtained an actual seisin or possession or seisin in fact, which is the kind of seisin to which the maxim refers, as distin- guished from seisin in law. Such was the rule at common law under the first canon of descent, generally repudiated in the United States. 23 Am J2d Desc & D § 69.

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