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46 documents for Livery of Seisin

- Real Estate Conveyances From Livery of Seisin to Electronic Transfer: Real Estate Transactions Enter the Digital/Electronic World
Prior to 1500, most real estate conveyances were by livery of seisin: "livery" meaning delivery and "seisin" meaning possession. Ownership followed possession at that time: Historically, the doctrine of livery of seisin referred to the ceremony by which the transferor conveyed property to the recipient. To successfully convey a fee interest in the property, the doctrine requires the physical transfer of a piece of ground, twig, key, or other symbol on the premises in the presence of witnesses. The ability to reduce records and documents to digital form and transfer them electronically, when coupled with the Internet, is transforming the commercial world in general, including the real estate world. In the real estate world, not only have the electronic sources provided new, more timely d...
- Real Estate Issues
- Vol. 33 Nbr. 2, July 2008
- Livery of Seisin
A ceremony performed in medieval England that effected the transfer of land from one party to another. Livery of seisin was...
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
- Jap–Ma
- Garner v. Gerrish and the renter's life estate: teaching a new concept of 'home.'.
... the rejection of feudal formalities like seisin, the court reasoned it was within its purview to r... common law practices, which once required livery of seisin for a life estate interest to be conferr...
- Faulkner Law Review
- Vol. 2 Nbr. 1, September 2010

- McKinley Creek Mining Co. v. Alaska United Mining Co., 183 U.S. 563 (1902)
... that it has regard to the solemnity of the livery of seisin, which ought not to be devested without ...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Davis v. Mason, 26 U.S. 503, 1 Pet. 503 (1828)
... in the absence of evidence of actual seisin, the husbands had good estates as tenants by the c... is taken, between things which lie in livery and things which lie in grant; and with regard to ...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Zia v. United States, 168 U.S. 198 (1897)
... them over the land, and making a livery of seisin by shouting, 'Long life to the king, our...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Irvine v. Irvine, 76 U.S. 617, 9 Wall. 617 (1869)
...; and this whether the deed operates by livery of seisin, or transmits the title by virtue of the...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- United States v. Schurz, 102 U.S. 378 (1880)
... from feoffment only in not requiring livery of seisin to vest the title. It does not dispense ...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Hepburn v. Dubois, 37 U.S. 345, 12 Pet. 345 (1838)
...Hence, livery of seisin was necessary to vest their estate; and ...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Bissell v. Heyward, 96 U.S. 580 (1877)
... original bill, that his feoffment, with livery of seisin, and a release by Bee, would have absolu...
- U.S. Supreme Court