- Sasine
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Definition
Sasine ("Scots law"): The delivery of feudal property, typically land.
Feudal property means immovable property, and includes everything that naturally goes with the property. For land, that would include such things as buildings, trees, and underground minerals. A superior (eg, a
heritor ) might authorise his agent or factor to give possession of his property to someone else through a document known as a "precept of sasine".Over time, "sasine" came to be used in common speech as a reference to the deed or document recording the transfer, rather than to the transfer itself. Hence phrases such as "to give sasines", "to deliver sasines", "to receive sasines", "to take sasines".
Alternate spellings: "sasin", "seasin", "sasing", "seasing", "sesin", "seasin", "sesine", "seasine", "saisine".The definition was constructed from the sources. [ cite book
last = Shumaker
first = Walter A.
coauthors = George Foster Longsdorf
title = The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
edition = Second Edition by James C. Cahill
year = 1922
publisher = Callaghan and Company
location = Chicago ] [cite web
title = Scottish Language Dictionaries
url = http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/
accessmonthday=March 1
accessyear=2008] [cite web
title = The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707
publisher = K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007), 1605/6/39
url = http://www.rps.ac.uk/
accessmonthday=February 15
accessyear=2008]Additional explanations
A "Register of Sasines" was created in every locality by the
Registration Act 1617 . It functions to this day on a national level as the Sasine Register. [cite web
title = Sasine Register
url = http://www.ros.gov.uk/aboutus/sasineregister.html
accessmonthday=March 7
accessyear=2008] Transfers of property were originally by symbolic delivery, by handing over a clump of ground or a stone or similar object on the property itself, and then registering the "deed of conveyance" in the local "Register of Sasines". Actual "sasines "on the land itself was made unnecessary by an act of 1845. The "instrument of "sasines" was superseded by the recording of the conveyance with a "warrant of registration" by an act of 1858.The corresponding term in English law was
livery of seisin (but not the termseisin ).ee also
Livery of seisin Moot hill Sasine ceremony of barony rights.ources and References
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