Page "Seisin" Paragraph 13

In European feudal states, " ownership " of land, that is to say allodial possession, was generally restricted to monarchs and was thus rarely an operative principle.

Instead seisin was used a term signifying feudal possession.

The modern writer Marc Bloch considers seisin to signify " possession made venerable by the lapse of time " and that " paper documentary evidence was not required to establish seisin, rather human memory of the use of land or administration of justice there was invoked, especially these by the ancestors ".