Sentence examples similar to being seised of from inspiring English sources
'So, if a man avows, for that A., being seised in fee, granted to him a rent, and the defendant pleads nothing in the tenements at the time of the grant, and the plaintiff rejoins that A. was cestuy que use in fee, which use is now executed by the statute of uses, this is a departure.' Plowd.
It was doubted whether a state can be seised in fee of lands, subject to the Indian title, and whether a decision that they were seised in fee, might not be construed to amount to a decision that their grantee might maintain an ejectment for them, notwithstanding that title.
According to contemporary thought, the man who was seised (i.e., put in possession) of a freehold was effectively considered the owner of the property, and the rights of the lords of freeholders became more like those of taxing authorities.
Our soldiers, working with the Bosnian government, seised terrorists who were plotting to bomb our embassy.
