POUR SEISIR TERRES

By SovConn | May 11, 2014

pour seisir terres (poor sI-z<<schwa>>r ter-eez). [Law French “for seizing the lands”] Hist. A writ by which the Crown could seize land that the wife of its deceased tenant, who held in capite, had for her dower if she married without leave.

[Blacks Law 8th]

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