Primer Seisin
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primer seisin · Marriage · feudal incidents · marriage (feudal incident) · marriage as a feudal incident · relief · wardship
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The cluster of feudal incidents (wardship, marriage, relief, primer seisin) owed by tenants to their lords, discussed extensively as background to Magna Carta's provisions.
All three forms of feudal obligation—service, incidents, and aids—have long been obsolete in England.
Sir Edward Coke (Coke upon Littleton, 77 A) is the original source of much confusion as to the nature of primer seisin, which he seems to have considered as a second and additional relief exacted by the Crown, amounting to the whole rent of the first year.
the guardianship went to the relations of the ward, and not to his feudal lord.