sasine

either the symbolic act of giving legal possession of a piece of heritable property, or the instrument by which such an act was proved to have happened. The origin of the term is the same as that for the word ‘seize’ – meaning to take possession of (in Scottish documents it is generally rendered ‘seis’). Hence, for example in an abridgement of sasine, someone who became the owner of a property (by succession, gift, purchase or whatever) is recorded as being ‘seised’ of that property. See symbols.