sasine Sc. Law.
(ˈseɪsɪn)
[Sc. var. of seisin (q.v. for obsolete forms), after Law Latin sasina.]
The act of giving possession of feudal property. Also, ‘colloquially, the instrument by which the fact of possession of feudal property is proved’ (Bell).
Precept of Sasine; see precept n. 4 b. Register of Sasines: the court at Edinburgh in which all sasines must be recorded within sixty days of execution.
| 1669 Sc. Acts Chas. II (1820) VII. 609/1 Together with the precept of sasine following vpon the said charter and instrument of sasine following vpon the said precept. 1693 Sc. Acts Will. & Mary (1822) IX. 271/2 All Infeftments whether of property or annual-rent, or other Reall Rights, wherupon Sasines for hereafter shall be taken. Ibid., According to the date and priority of the Registrations of the Sasines. 1782 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 2) XVI. 661 Sasine, or Seisin. 1826 Scott Woodst. iii, Will you take sasine and livery? 1828–40 Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 28 Sasine or legal possession of the land, was immediately to be given by a brief from Chancery. 1869 Act 31 & 32 Vict. c. 101 §3 Sched. B, A disposition..bearing date as in the precept of sasine herein-after inserted. 1884 Law Rep., 9 App. Cases 305 The trustee's infeftment in the heritable estate was recorded in the register of sasines at Glasgow. |