Seizin

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The act of taking possession.

II. Seizin ·noun The thing possessed; property.

III. Seizin ·noun Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means merely ownership.